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Modified Dall–Kirkham telescope

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Another advantage of either the basic Dall-Kirkham or the Modified Dall-Kirkham design is that collimation of the convex spherical secondary mirror with respect to the optical axis of the primary mirror is almost trivial, because there is no single defined axis of a sphere. Any line that runs
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is slightly different from that for a conventional Dall-Kirkham and must be optimized along with the lenses during design. The usable field is much better than the
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without corrector, and over very wide spectral bands, typically 380 to 950 
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configuration, but also includes a lens group (usually two or three
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Dall-Kirkham reflecting telescope, built by Horace Edward Dall
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Such a telescope was designed by Rosin and Wynne after
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telescope
elliptical
spherical
mirror
Dall-Kirkham
lens
focal point
image
conic constant
Ritchey-Chrétien telescope
nanometres
UV-A
near infrared
World War II
List of telescope types
Le télescope de Wynne-Rosin
Category
Telescope types

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