Schmidt telescope
noun
a wide-angle reflecting telescope used primarily for astronomical photography, in which spherical aberration and coma are reduced to a minimum by means of a spherical mirror with a corrector plate near its focus.
Also called
Schmidt reflector.
Origin of Schmidt telescope
1935–40; named after Bernard
Schmidt (1879–1935), German inventor
British Dictionary definitions for schmidt telescope
Schmidt telescope
Schmidt camera
noun
a catadioptric telescope designed to produce a very sharp image of a large area of sky in one photographic exposure. It incorporates a thin specially shaped glass plate at the centre of curvature of a short-focus spherical primary mirror so that the resulting image, which is focused on a photographic plate, is free from spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism
Word Origin for Schmidt telescope
C20: named after B. V.
Schmidt (1879–1935), Estonian-born German inventor