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This chapter describes the cameras most commonly used for astronomical photography. The main component in these cameras is a concave mirror S that forms the image of an object at infinity on its focal plane. The image formed by such a system usually exhibits aberrations that are too large to be acceptable.
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Romano, A. (2010). Cameras for Astronomy. In: Geometric Optics. Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4872-5_5
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