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• Schmidt camera — A Schmidt camera, also referred to as the Schmidt telescope, 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.Invention and… …   Wikipedia

• Schmidt-Teleskop — Strahlengang eines Schmidt Teleskops Das Alfred Jensch Teleskop …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Schmidt optics — /ʃmɪt ˈɒptɪks/ (say shmit optiks) noun optical system (used in wide field cameras and reflecting telescopes) by means of which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by specially designed objectives. {named after Bernard Schmidt,… …  

• Bernhard Schmidt — Bernhard Woldemar Schmidt (March 30, 1879 ndash; December 1, 1935) was an Estonian Swede optician who spent his adult life in Germany. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma …   Wikipedia

• Harald Schmidt — Infobox Celebrity name = Harald Schmidt caption = Harald Schmidt birth date = Birth date and age|1957|8|18|mf=y birth place = Neu Ulm, Germany death date = death place = occupation = talk show host, comedian and television producer salary =… …   Wikipedia

• Astrophotography — An image of Orion s Belt composited from digitized black and white photographic plates recorded through red and blue astronomical filters, with a computer synthesized green channel. The plates were taken using the Samuel Oschin Telescope between… …   Wikipedia

• Catadioptric system — A 150 mm aperture catadioptric telescope (Maksutov) A catadioptric optical system is one where refraction and reflection are combined in an optical system, usually via lenses (dioptrics) and curved mirrors (catoptrics). Catadioptric… …   Wikipedia

• Palomar Observatory — Organization Caltech …   Wikipedia

• Palomar Observatory — an astronomical observatory situated on Palomar Mountain in S California, having a 200 in. (508 cm) reflecting telescope and a 48 in. (122 cm) Schmidt telescope. Also called Palomar Mountain Observatory. * * * Astronomical observatory on Mount… …   Universalium

• Mass surveillance — A closed circuit television camera. Mass surveillance is the pervasive surveillance of an entire population, or a substantial fraction thereof. Modern governments today commonly perform mass surveillance of their citizens, explaining that they… …   Wikipedia

• Physical Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Scientists discovered a new family of superconducting materials and obtained unique images of individual hydrogen atoms and of a multiple exoplanet system. Europe completed the Large Hadron Collider, and China and India took… …   Universalium