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Cassegrain Telescope: Presented by Mehar 12C

The Cassegrain telescope uses a parabolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror. Light bounces off both mirrors and focuses through a hole in the primary mirror to produce an upright image. It has advantages over refracting telescopes in being more compact due to its folded optical path and producing less chromatic aberration.

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Cassegrain Telescope: Presented by Mehar 12C

The Cassegrain telescope uses a parabolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic secondary mirror. Light bounces off both mirrors and focuses through a hole in the primary mirror to produce an upright image. It has advantages over refracting telescopes in being more compact due to its folded optical path and producing less chromatic aberration.

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Cassegrain

Telescope
Presented by Mehar 12C
A reflecting telescope (also called a reflector)
is a telescope that uses a single or a
combination of mirrors that reflect light and
form an image.
Refracting telescopes use lenses to collect and
focus the light.
Structure
The classic Cassegrain telescope
consists of a large concave
parabolic reflector (primary mirror)
and a small convex hyperbolic
mirror (secondary mirror). There is a
hole in the primary mirror. The
eyepiece and the other instruments
are located behind the hole.
A parabolic mirror is a reflective surface
used to collect or project energy such as
light, sound, or radio waves. Its shape is
part of a circular paraboloid which focuses
the parallel rays of the distant object to a
single point.

A hyperbolic mirror is the optical


component for precisely and accurately
focusing light in a telescope from one focal
point to the other focal point.
Difference between spherical and parabolic mirror An example of spherical aberration
Working
The light which is incident on the primary
mirror is reflected onto the hyperbolic
secondary which again reflects the light
such that it is focused onto the hole in the
primary parabolic.
Cassegrain telescopes will produce an
image that is upside down when used
without a diagonal. When a diagonal is
used the image will be corrected right side
up, but backwards from left to right. There
are special diagonals called Erect Image
Prism diagonals that can correct the
backwards image for land use.
Diagonal
A diagonal is a small triangular attachment,
usually incorporating a small surface-coated
mirror set at 45°.
The diagonal bends the light collected by the
telescope through 90°.
This simple attachment makes it much easier
to observe because now you can view looking
down into the telescope rather that up into it.

Cassegrain telescope
Advantages
Reflecting telescopes are not Telescope tube of a reflector is
subjected to the chromatic shorter than that of a refractor of
aberration because the reflected the same diameter which reduces
light does not disperse according to the cost of the tube, and they are
01 the wavelength, and all the 03 easier and cheaper to build. 
wavelengths will reflect off the
mirror in the same way. They are easier to mount because
the back of the mirror can be used
to attach to the mount and also
because mirrors weigh less than
02 The folded optical path in the
cassegrain telescope makes it
04 lenses
compact and portable
Other types of reflectors

Uses a concave primary


Prime focus telescopes have mirror and a flat secondary
no secondary optics and the mirror placed diagonally to
observer observes the image project the image onto the
from near the focal point. eyepiece which is located at
the top end of microscope.
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