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Definition of Schmidt camera
1. Noun. Reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed.
Definition of Schmidt camera
1. Noun. (astronomy) A camera mounted in a Schmidt telescope ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Schmidt Camera
Literary usage of Schmidt camera
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"... Wood grating and a Schmidt camera. With a dispersion of 10.2 A/mm, Dunham
measured stellar lines to the nearest hundredth of an angstrom—approaching the ..."
2. The Command of Light: Rowland's School of Physics and the Spectrum by George Kean Sweetnam (2000)
"The absorption of light by lenses was still significant, and the invention of
the Schmidt camera in Germany in the early 1930s made possible the handling of ..."
3. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"... and 0.6-m Schmidt camera. NOAO also operates the Cerro-Tololo Inter- American
Observatory near La Serena, Chile. ..."
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