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The Schmidt telescope uses a corrective lens (corrector plate) to achieve a wide field of view. It is one of the most widely used tools of astronomy.

Branch of physics that deals with the study of light and vision – for example, shadows and mirror images, lenses, microscopes, telescopes, and cameras. On striking a surface, light rays are reflected or refracted, and the study of this is known as geometrical optics.



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00 Hardcover QC383 Geometrical optics is a peculiar science, warns Stavroudis (Centro de Investigaciones en Optics, Guanajuato, Mexico), its primary artifacts being rays, which do not exist, and wavefronts, which exist but cannot be directly observed.
 
 
 
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