Items related to Making Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope Optics
Synopsis
Making Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope This 320-page book is a guide for the more advanced ATM who wants to learn more about making SCT optics - primaries, secondaries, and the corrector plates. For those who were always interested in SCT optics but never gave it a try before, this book is for you. It takes the reader step-by-step through the phases of designing (or copying) optical components of SCTs through the use of basic optical math, and then instructs the reader how to turn these calculations into physical optics through the use of spherometers and other measuring devices. The chapters cover the use of optics software TDESIGN and ATMOS, also manual calculations, the ability to make optics from scratch, copy existing optical components through careful measuring, and also back-engineering SCT optics. Testing techniques such as Foucault, knife-edge, and Ronchi methods are discussed, as well as the use of Hindle spheres and Gaviola lenses. The text deals extensively with the use of petal tools and laps, for grinding and figuring correctors and secondary mirrors. Specialty computer programs for easily drawing petal laps are shown, and various techniques on how to use them ( Schmidt’s original vacuum-pan method is NOT discussed here and only briefly mentioned, as there are other texts that deal with this method exclusively). Chapters How to read fringes, Hand-matching the finished system, making correctors, primaries, secondaries, the use of computer software, going back and forth between match and optics vs. optics and math, optical flats, hardware, special testing setups, etc.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantCan't find the book you're looking for? We'll keep searching for you. If one of our booksellers adds it to AbeBooks, we'll let you know!
Create a Want