Re: [APML] 48 Inch Schmidt Telescopes

[KGKIRKLEY@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/2/02 12:11:41 AM, wrmattil@ix.netcom.com writes:

>The reason I would love to see how he did it was the curved film plane.
>CCD chips aren't (to the best of my knowlege) curved, at least those
>that most of us could afford are not. So .... the mirror to get the
>light cone out the side is easy ..... flattening it without introducing
>abberations (sp?) and screwing up the FOV is the cute part.
>
>Regards
>
>Bill

Bill.......don't any ideas, you've got your hands full with the Schmidt you 
have.
Talk about fast Newtonians having large secondary mirrors...................
To get the image plane of an f1.5 Schmidt outside the tube  would require a 
really large secondary, in fact ,so large that it would seem 
counterproductive.

Kent Kirkley   

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