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Re: [APML] Meade Schmidt; was: High Res M31



Bert Katzung wrote:
Is the film
> held in a curved plane somehow? 

Yes, that's the way Schmit cameras work. There is
a curved platten that holds the film at a curve
equal to the curvature of the field.

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