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Maksutov telescope
[ mak-soo-tawf, -tof ]
noun
- a reflecting telescope in which coma and spherical aberration are reduced to a minimum by a combination of a spherical mirror and a meniscus lens placed inside the radius of curvature of the mirror.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Maksutov telescope1
After Russian opticist Dmitriĭ Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964), who designed such a telescope in 1941
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