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Compound Cassegrain Telescopes

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Very efficient optical configurations can be obtained for astronomical telescopes by combining one of the correctors described in the previous chapter with the Cassegrain scheme.

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Romano, A., Cavaliere, R. (2016). Compound Cassegrain Telescopes. In: Geometric Optics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43732-3_7

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