Discovery channel Telescope

[lhuchison]

Was the discovery channel large telescope, featured on their channel the other evening ,a massive Schmitd -Cassegrain ?

[adamsp123]

According to Wiki it is an Richey-Chretien design but also can be used without the secondary for prime focus wide angle imaging

[lhuchison]

Thanks Pete

[Budding Star Gazer]

Was the discovery channel large telescope, featured on their channel the other evening ,a massive Schmitd -Cassegrain ?

give this a watch it is featured and all your questions will be answered, also some pretty amazing scopes from around the world featured including one that is mounted inside a boeing 777.

http://www.thegreatplanet.com/seeing-stars-bbc-horizon/

[Budding Star Gazer]

scrap that i don't think it does feature in the documentry i posted still a good watch though.

[VigdisVZ]

I've seen that documentary atleast 3 times, thanks for posting a youtube link.

[lhuchison]

Thanks for the link, very interesting.