Back to Home

ATM Forum Message

Forums: Atm · Astrophotography · Blackholes · Blackholes2 · CCD · Celestron · Domes · Education
Eyepieces · Meade · Misc. · God and Science · SETI · Software · UFO · XEphem
RSS Button

Home | Discussion Forums | Amateur Telescope Making | Post
Login

Be the first pioneers to continue the Astronomy Discussions at our new Astronomy meeting place...
The Space and Astronomy Agora
RE: Aid On Telescope Design

Forum List | Follow Ups | Post Message | Back to Thread Topics | In Response To
Posted by Why? on August 3, 2000 17:56:52 UTC

There are certainly a lot of existing designs that would be more practical and easer to constuct. The light is going to have to pass through the corrector twice once from a steep f:4 cone and then next about an f:12 cone. I doubt there is a prescription less than six elements and 12 surfaces that will give satifactory results. Your secondary will not work well that small anyway as there will be a tremendous loss of field. I would image looking down such a system, one would find a small illuminated area surround by a big black tunnel of vignetting. I have seen a sytem with a flat secondary infact I own one come to think of it and it does just what I said. It does not have the corrector but in its place is an electron imaging tube. When used with optics instead of the tube it is about like looking through a 1/4 mile long tunnel.

Is there a reason for this suggestion or are you just "toying" around with ideas? By placing the corrector right infront of a sperical secondary one can acheive good results with a double or triplet (AR coated of course).

Have Fun,
-Rick

Follow Ups:

    Login to Post
    Additional Information
    Google
     
    Web www.astronomy.net
    DayNightLine
    About Astronomy Net | Advertise on Astronomy Net | Contact & Comments | Privacy Policy
    Unless otherwise specified, web site content Copyright 1994-2024 John Huggins All Rights Reserved
    Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post.
    "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET"
    are trademarks of John Huggins