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Herschelian telescope

noun
1.
A reflecting telescope with the mirror slightly tilted to throw the image to the side where it can be viewed.  Synonym: off-axis reflector.






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"Herschelian telescope" Quotes from Famous Books



... a picture taken by an Herschelian reflector, the inversion not being complete, a different method must be adopted. In fact, either of the above-named processes, incorrect for the ordinary astronomical, would be correct for the Herschelian Telescope. The latter inverts but does not reverse right and left; therefore after inverting our picture we must interchange right and left because they have been reversed by the inversion. This is effected either ...
— Half-hours with the Telescope - Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a - Means of Amusement and Instruction. • Richard A. Proctor



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