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Optical Designs of Plane Aspherized Grating Spectrographs

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Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes

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Spectrographs using plane aspherized gratings have excellent resolution over a wide field and require one less element than a conventional Schmidt or Maksutov camera. However, they are restricted to configurations where the grating is approximately normal to the camera axis.

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  • Richardson, E.H., Brealey, G.A. and Dancey, R. 1971, Publ. Dom. astrophys. Obs. 14, p. 1 (also Proc. ESO/CERN Conference 1972, ed. S. Laustsen and A. Reiz, pp. 275–284).

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  • Richardson, E.H. 1975, “CFHT: Optical Design of 10cm and 30cm Grating Spectrographs”, CFHT Corporation, Hawaii, April 1975.

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Richardson, E.H. (1982). Optical Designs of Plane Aspherized Grating Spectrographs. In: Humphries, C.M. (eds) Instrumentation for Astronomy with Large Optical Telescopes. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 92. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7787-7_17

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