Re: MEMO to Meade: How to write an honest news release

From: RMOLLISE (rmollise_at_aol.com)
Date: 02/01/05 

Date: 1 Feb 2005 06:05:01 -0800

Chris L Peterson wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:53:48 -0800, Chuck Taylor <not@thisaddress>
>
> I don't see it that way. I don't have a serious problem with calling
a
> design that uses two hyperboloidal (or approximately hyperboloidal)
> surfaces a R-C even if there is a corrector plate. Most of the R-Cs
in
> the world are operated with field flatteners or other types of
> correction, and we still call them R-Cs. Sure, this one is modified,
but
> that doesn't represent dishonest advertising. There is absolutely no
way
> that anyone can read the Meade literature and not understand that
this
> new scope uses two mirrors and one corrector.
>

Hi Chris:

I agree. Now, if it were _me_, I'd call the scope a "modified SCT" (it
apparently uses a spherical primary and a aspheric secondary)...but
that ain't very sexy, and I would say that Meade is _just_ as justified
in calling it, as they do, a modification of the R/C design. After all,
what's a "modified Plossl," anyway? :-)

The design they aimed for appears to be something that yields a flat
Ritchey-like field. The true test is whether it does. If it does this
well, they can call it anything they like.

Personally, I'm excited about the new scopes.

Peace,
Rod Mollise
Author of _Choosing and Using a Schmidt Cassegrain Telescope_
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