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    A three-mirror anastigmat is an anastigmat telescope built with three curved mirrors, enabling it to minimize all three main optical aberrations – spherical...
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    the word Anastigmat in their name to advertise this new feature (Doppel-Anastigmat, Voigtländer Anastigmat Skopar, etc.). The first Anastigmat was designed...
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    reflector) is a telescope that uses a single or a combination of curved mirrors that reflect light and form an image. The reflecting telescope was invented...
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    design with a total of five mirrors. The first three mirrors are curved (non-spherical) and form a three-mirror anastigmat design for excellent image quality...
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    third curved optical element. When this element is a mirror, the result is a three-mirror anastigmat. Alternatively, a RCT may use one or several low-power...
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    Ritchey–Chrétien, for example. LSST will use a three-mirror anastigmat to cancel astigmatism by employing three non-spherical mirrors. The result is sharp images over...
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    and a three-mirror anastigmat design with a focal length of about 600 mm (24 in); the instantaneous field of view is about 21° by 3.5°. The mirrors are...
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    in 2011–2012, featuring a 1.3 m (4.3 ft) diameter unobstructed three-mirror anastigmat telescope. It contained a single instrument, a visible to near-infrared...
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    75 cm (30 in)-diameter primary mirror in a three-mirror anastigmat configuration which will capture and redirect light to three different sensors. Two of these...
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    the mirror with 10 nanometer accuracy. Webb's optical design is a three-mirror anastigmat, which makes use of curved secondary and tertiary mirrors to...
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  • satellite has a mass of 148 kilograms (326 lb), and carries a three-mirror anastigmat to track artificial objects in medium Earth orbit to geosynchronous...
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  • 17th-century objective lenses, etc. Optical telescopes can be classified by three primary optical designs (refractor, reflector, or catadioptric), by sub-designs...
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    to the difficulties encountered in polishing Gaia's ten silicon carbide mirrors and assembling and testing the focal plane camera system. The Gaia space...
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    ices, and organics at the surface. The L'Ralph instrument has a three-mirror anastigmat design f/6 with a 75 mm aperture. The telescope structure is composed...
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  • deployed, these segments are part of the three-mirror anastigmat design's primary element and don't serve as fold mirrors in the optical sense. Periscope lens...
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    Null corrector (category Mirrors)
    for example, Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, or three-mirror anastigmats such as LSST.) Non-spherical mirrors such as these will not give a null result when...
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    the three-mirror anastigmat. This consists of a main mirror with a diameter of 2 meters to take in light. It reflects this light to a second mirror. Then...
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    Max power use: 7.1 watts Telescope design Unobscured Off-axis Three-mirror anastigmat Aperture 75 mm f/8.7 Effective focal length 658 mm Electronic control...
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    feature often had the word Anastigmat in their name: Voigtländer Anastigmat Skopar. A Tessar comprises four elements in three groups, one positive crown...
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  • mission led by the Canadian Space Agency. With its 1-meter diameter primary mirror, CASTOR would provide imaging capabilities in the ultraviolet (UV) and blue-optical...
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    There are also a small number of off-axis unobstructed all-reflecting anastigmats which give optically perfect images. Refracting telescopes and their...
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    & H) Cooke Triplet was a deceptively simple looking asymmetric three element anastigmat formula created by reexamining lens design from first principles...
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    three groups—the third group being three cemented elements—and was initially named the Leitz Anastigmat. Unlike other triplets, the Leitz Anastigmat has...
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    assigned to Wild Heerbrugg AG  Kingslake, Rudolf (1989). "8. Meniscus Anastigmats". A History of the Photographic Lens. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 117–130...
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    designed to reduce or eliminate astigmatism. Such systems are called anastigmats. If an optical system is not axisymmetric, either due to an error in...
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    was the most widely used for portraits until Carl Zeiss introduced the anastigmat lens in 1889.: 19  Within a decade of being introduced in America, 3 general...
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    704) Sonnar f/1.5 (Bertele, 1932, per US 1,975,678) The Cooke triplet anastigmat, designed by Dennis Taylor and patented in 1893, was modified in 1916...
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  • 8/80 lens Pål-Nils Nilsson with Cook & Perkins Dallmeyer Dallon Tele-Anastigmat 5.6/500 lens The original normal lens for the 1600F and 1000F was the...
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    Focal Press. ISBN 0817406654. Kingslake, Rudolf (1989). "8. Meniscus Anastigmats". A History of the Photographic Lens. San Diego: Academic Press. pp. 117–130...
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    Finally, the out-coupling beam splitter (which is a partially reflecting mirror, not a polarizing beam splitter) reflects the collimated light another 45°...
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