If you want to take a look through a similar telescope, follow this link:
Optical Engineer Rik ter Horst shows us how he makes very small telescopes (at home) which are intended for use in micro-satellites.
Contents:
0:00 Intro
1:06 About telescopes and focal length
3:35 The Cassegrain telescope
4:38 The Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope
5:18 The monolithic telescope concept
6:30 Rik ter Horst Interview
10:25 Riks’ polishing setup
13:51 About manufacturing aspherics
16:50 Advantages of solid telescopes
17:49 Dreaming about a VLTT
ORESAT PROJECT CORRECTION. I was notified that the name of the university behind the OreSat project is erroneous: It is the “Portland State University“ (), not University of Portland. Sorry about that! Direct link to the Oresat project:
Rik published details about the 1993 version of this type of telescope on in 2013. (archived article)
2:34 The image shows the second telescope of Galileo, not the first telescope of Lipperhey.
The video contains images of external sources. Please visit their websites for more information:
- Star party image was taken from:
- More amazing astro-photos made by Dick van Tatenhoven can be found at:
- NOVA-Astron website:
- Yerkes telescope photo from:
- Source of image at 0:41 is
- Image of the Schmidt plate and Cassegrain telescope taken from their respective Wikipedia pages:
–Cassegrain_telescope
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