Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun schmidt_telescope

1 sense of schmidt telescope

Sense 1
Schmidt telescope, Schmidt camera -- (reflecting telescope that has plate that corrects for aberration so a wide area of sky can be photographed)
       => reflecting telescope, reflector -- (optical telescope consisting of a large concave mirror that produces an image that is magnified by the eyepiece; "Isaac Newton invented the reflecting telescope in 1668")