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The simplest and famous kind of telescope was invented by Newton. It consists of a parabolic primary mirror \(S_{1}\) and a flat secondary mirror \(S_{2}\) that is situated in front of the primary and directs the converging cone of light arriving from the primary out of the tube for visual or photographic applications.
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The aberration coefficients derived in this Chapter can be evaluated by the notebook TotalAberrations.
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Compare these results with the results contained in TotalAberrations.
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Compare these results with the results contained in TotalAberrations.
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Romano, A., Cavaliere, R. (2016). Newtonian and Cassegrain Telescopes. In: Geometric Optics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43732-3_5
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