Re: [ATM] Large Schmidt Camera?

[Michael Peck <mlpeck@hughes.net>]

At 14:51 4/22/06, David Sleeter wrote:
>Hi Folks:
>
>I have a 16-1/2" dia. F-2.5 spherical Cassegrain-style (hole in the middle)
>mirror, and I'm wondering if there are any off-the-shelf combinations of
>field flattener and CCD camera with which it could easily be used as a
>Schmidt camera?

Is no one else going to make the obvious reply? To make a Schmidt 
camera you need a Schmidt corrector plate. That's going to be the 
hard piece to acquire or make. A field flattener by itself isn't 
going to help with the 25 waves or so of spherical aberration your 
spherical mirror has.

Mike Peck


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