Schmidt-Cassegrain to Maksutov-Cassegrain - this is everything you need to know about the different types of telescopes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A Schmidt-Cassegrain 8-inch telescope. SBO possesses two 8-inch diameter Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. One is a Celestron (on long-term loan from John Bally) that was mounted piggyback on the 18-inch ...

Among the telescopes available today, the Maksutov-Cassegrain (or Maksutov, for short) ranks fourth in popularity. Russian astronomer Dmitri Maksutov (1896-1964) invented the optical design in 1944.

The Wi-Fi-enabled lineup of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes -- there are 6-inch (1500mm/F10), 8-inch (2032mm/F10), and 9.25-inch (2350mm/F10) versions -- show up as an access point in a smartphone ...

THE new solar telescope of the University Observatory, Oxford, which was formally declared open by the Vice-Chancellor on June 11, is in its essence a vertical Cassegrain telescope of 12 J inches ...