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9.8.5 Cassegrain reflecting telescope Fig. 9.151 shows


reflecting telescope. It consists of a
Cassegraintype
oncave paraboloidal(primary) mirror haaving a hole at its
centre Thereis asmall convex(secondary) mirror near the
large
fous ofthe primary mirror. The eyepiece is placed on the
axis of the telescope near the hole of the primary mirror.
Paraboloidal
objective
mirror
Secondary
mirror
Parallel rays F
trom distant
object Eyepiece

Fig. 9.151 Cassegrain reflecting telescope.


Working. The parallel rays from the distant object avs
reflected by the large concave mirror. Before these
rays
come to focus at F, they are reflected by the small Convex
mirror and are converged to a point I just outside the hole
The final image formed at I is viewed through the
- eyepiece. As the first image at Fis inverted with respect to
the distant object and the second image Iis erect with
respect to the first image F, hence the final image is inverted
with respect to the object.
Let f, be the focal length of the objective and f, that of
the eyepiece.
For the final image formed at the least
distance of
distinct vision,
m= 1+

For the finai image formed at


infinity, m= fo R/2

9.8.6 Advantages of reflecting type telescope over a


refracting type telescope:
() No chromatic
(ii) Spherical
aberration, because mirror is used.
aberration gets removed by using
paraboloidal
(ii) The
mirror.
image is
light due to bright, and because there is no loss of
(r0) Higher reflection absorption by objective.
mirror ofresolution
large
can be obtained by
usin3
(v) A aperture.
mirror provides an
back easier mechanical support
over its entire
(vi) It is
difficult and
surface.
lens free expensive to make large sized
from chromatic aberration
and distortions.

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