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Newtonian telescope
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Newtonian telescope
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2026-10-05
A
Newtonian
telescope
uses
a
concave parabolic primary and
a
flat
diagonal
secondary to send the converging beam to
a
side focus. The primary avoids on-axis
spherical aberration
, but has off-axis
coma
.
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