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Maksutov telescope
[ mak-soo-tawf, -tof ]
/ ˈmæk sʊˌtɔf, -ˌtɒf /
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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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Origin of Maksutov telescope
After Russian opticist DmitriÄ Dmitrievich Maksutov (1896–1964), who designed such a telescope in 1941
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