Astrophotography with the Schmidt Telescope

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The Schmidt telescope is a special photographic telescope that uses a spherical, rather than a parabolic, main mirror. Facing each photograph is a text page introducing the object to the reader and explaining its appearance, characteristic data, and its physical nature. All who are interested in astronomy, the natural sciences, and history will enjoy this book, whether specialists or nonspecialists in the field. The book contains photographs of galactic nebulae of different species, galactic and globular clusters of stars, stellar fields, external galaxies, and comets. The obj