Glossary

SCT - Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope

updated:  2023-06-28

Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (SCTs)

The first optical element is a Schmidt corrector plate. The plate is figured by placing a vacuum on one side, and grinding the exact correction required to correct the spherical aberration caused by the spherical primary mirror. Schmidt-Cassegrains are popular with amateur astronomers.

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