Meaning Of The Word Cassegrain telescope

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Cassegrain telescope in American English
noun: a reflecting telescope in which the light, passing through a central opening in the primary mirror, is brought into focus a short distance behind it by a secondary mirror

Cassegrain telescope in British English
noun: an astronomical reflecting telescope in which incident light is reflected from a large concave paraboloid mirror onto a smaller convex hyperboloid mirror and then back through a hole in the concave mirror to form the image

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