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- From: dsc@gemini.tmc.edu (Doug S. Caprette Bldg. 28 W191 x3892)
- Subject: Re: Telescope question
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- References: <mcdonald.266@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Sep4.020352.9459@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:26:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep4.020352.9459@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mcollins@wdc.sps.mot.com (Michael Collins) writes:
- >
- > In the case of short f.r. Newtonians, the situation is much worse,
- >for three reasons. First, coma increases roughly with the inverse
- >square of focal ratio. At f/6, it's not too bad across a moderately
- >wide field, but by f/4 it's really becoming a factor. Conversely,
- >it's negligible for most observing at f/8, and essentially gone past
- >there. With fast primaries you get a rapidly converging light cone.
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- Begging you pardon, but coma is not unique to the Newtonian is it? If I have
- an 8" f/4 refractor, SCT, Maksutov, etc, I should expect some coma as well,
- shouldn't I?
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- I do have a 6" f/3.5 refractor with a triplet objective. It is so full of
- abberations that it is rather hard to distinguish which are which!
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