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Keywords: Aberration, Telescope, Astronomical, Lurie, Houghton

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A type of telescope that uses a spherical mirror and a thin lens to provide photographs of a wide field.

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reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed

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an astronomical camera designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberration in

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a specialised telescope for taking wide-field images

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A Schmidt camera is an astronomical camera designed to provide wide fields of view with limited aberrations. Other similar designs are the Wright Camera and Lurie-Houghton telescope.

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