What is anoptical telescopeused for

This tale grew old, but our fascination with telescopes has not. Following text is an attempt to give more of an insight into their inner workings. More specifically, how do they form images and what factors determine their quality.

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6. EFFECTS OF WAVEFRONT ABERRATIONS 6.1. Aberrations and optical quality: Criteria* 6.2. General effects   6.3. Object type related* 2 6.4. Diffraction pattern    Star test* 6.5. Strehl ratio   6.6. MTF* 2 3  7. OBSTRUCTION EFFECTS 2 3 4* 5*  8. REFLECTING OBJECTIVES 8.1. Newtonian*   off-axis  collimation  diagonal flat 8.2. All-reflecting two-mirror* 2* 3* 4 5* 6 8.3. Three-mirror Cassegrain-Gregorian   Paul-Baker*    FAA 8.4. Off-axis and tilted elements Herschelian  2-mirror TCT* 2* off-axis Newtonian* 9. REFRACTING OBJECTIVE* Achromat*  Apo 2* Designing    10. CATADIOPTRIC TELESCOPES 10.1. SUB-APERTURE LENS CATs 2 3 4* 10.2. FULL-APERTURE LENS CATs 10.2.1. Dialytes  Hamilton  Schupmann  Busack/Honders 10.2.2. Schmidt corrector Schmidt camera 2*   Wright, Baker, Hyperstar*  SN   SCT* 2* 3* SC camera 10.2.3. Meniscus corrector Bowers/Maksutov camera 2  MN* MCT* 2 3* 10.2.4. Houghton corrector Houghton camera 2  HN  HCT 2 3 4 5

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For additional reading, see extensive coverage of telescope optics and related subjects at Bruce MacEvoy's Astronomical optics (descriptive), and Solo Hermelin's SlideShares (mathematical). For related graphics, Wyant College website.

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3. TELESCOPE ABERRATIONS: Types, causes 3.1. Wavefront aberrations 3.2. Ray (geometric) aberrations* 3.3. Conics and aberrations 2 3.4. Terms and conventions 3.5. Aberration function Seidel Zernike 2 3

How does anoptical telescopework

On an early autumn day of 1608, Hans Lipperhey, a spectacle maker from Middelburg, in the Netherlands' coastal province of Zeeland, applied before the States General of The Hague for a patent on an "instrument for seeing far". By that time, use of small rounded glass disks to aid the natural eyesight wasn't new. Those bulging out on both sides, resembling lentil - or "lens" in Latin - have been used to correct for farsightedness since the mid 13th century. The idea of a device for magnifying distant objects may have been already grasped for some time as well. But this was the beginning of something else. In the summer of 1609, Galileo, Harriot, and others, turned the new Dutch invention - the "spyglass" - toward the night sky. The telescope was born.

1. IMAGE FORMATION IN A TELESCOPE Rays and waves  Diffraction  PSF 1.2. Reflection and refraction 1.3. Optical system of a telescope 1.3.1 Gaussian approximation

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Somewhat unusual, the main aspect is that of the optical wavefront, as opposed to the geometric (ray) "interface". That deliberate choice, while perhaps somewhat less convenient, allows for more accurate qualitative assessment, and should throw more light at the underlying physical fundamentals. Main reference sources are as follows: (1) Astronomical Optics, Daniel J. Schroeder, (2) Aberration Theory Made Simple, Virendra N. Mahajan, (3) Optical Imaging and Aberrations I and II, Virendra N. Mahajan, (4) Optics, Eugene Hecht, and (5) Telescope Optics, Harrie Rutten and Martin van Venrooij. Most of raytracing plots and routine checkups are by ATMOS, Massimo Riccardi, and OSLO, Sinclair Optics. Most of diffraction patterns were generated by Aberrator, Cor Berrevoets.

5. INDUCED ABERRATIONS 5.1. Air-medium errors Seeing error   Model limitations Seeing and aperture The seeing Strehl, resolution, OTF 5.2. Low-level turbulence, tube currents, atmospheric refraction/dispersion 5.3. Alignment errors* 5.4. Force-induced surface errors