Reflecting Telescope Optics I

Basic Design Theory and its Historical Development
2. Auflage 2004. Corr. 2. printing 2007
ISBN: 978-3-540-40106-3
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1153 g

Reihe: Astronomy and Astrophysics Library

Complete compendium on the physics and applications of telescope optics, underlying the original and oldest of astronomical instruments.

Thoroughly scholarly work that provides both the historical perspective and the state-of-the-art technology, such as the 4-lens corrector of Delabre and the LADS corrector.

Newly updated edition brings this authoritative work completely up to date..

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Zielgruppe

Graduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Raymond N.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Elektromagnetismus Optik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Historical introduction.- Basic (Gaussian) optical theory of telescopes.- Aberration theory of telescopes.- Field correctors and focal reducers or extenders.- Major telescopes from Lord Rosse to about 1980.