A dismountable and portable telescope with a large primary mirror (250 mm in diameter) and a numerical aperture of
5.6, is presented. The telescope has a all-spheric catadioptric optical design, consisting of a spherical primary and a
group of spherical lenses, where the last surface is aluminized, as a secondary mirror.
The group of lenses corrects all the optical aberrations, including the spherical introduced by the primary and the
chromatic ones. The telescope has a very compact design, with a physical length of 600mm. This fact, joint with the all spherical
design, make it a ligth portable and easy to align instrument: when dismounted it can be contained in a suitcase
sizing 580x440x140 mm and the spherical surface for all the mirrors and lenses makes easy the final alignment of the
optical train.
We discuss here in detail the optical design and the realized prototype and will show the results, both in terms of
theoretical and effective performances.&publicationDat
A dismountable and portable telescope with a primary mirror of 250 mm in diameter and a numerical aperture of 5.6, is
presented. The telescope has a all-spheric catadioptric optical design, consisting of a spherical primary and a group of
spherical lenses, where the last surface is aluminized, as a secondary mirror.
The group of lenses corrects all the optical aberrations, including the spherical introduced by the primary and the
chromatic ones. The telescope has a very compact design, with a physical length of 600mm. This fact, joint with the allspherical
design, make it a ligth portable and easy to align instrument: when dismounted it can be contained in a suitcase
sizing 580x440x140 mm and the spherical surface for all the mirrors and lenses makes easy the final alignment of the
optical train.
We discuss here in detail the optical design and the realized prototype and will show the results, both in terms of
theoretical and effective performances.
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