coudéadj.
/kuːˈdeɪ/ Of, pertaining to, or designating a telescope or part of a telescope in which rays are bent to focus at a fixed point away from the axis of the telescope. Also as n.
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Galilean1728
dialytic1839
coudé1888
autocollimating1898
Keplerian1909
double-barrelled1955
Dobsonian1980
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 153/1 The present writer tested the equatorial coudé on double stars at the Paris observatory in 1884.
1922 Nature 16 Mar. 362/2 A coudée telescope designed for the application of the method of equal heights.
1946 Nature 23 Nov. 764/2 The stellar spectra obtained at the coudé focus of the 100-in. telescope.
1951 Engineering 9 Mar. 298/1 Design to permit coudé spectroscopy.
1959 A. N. Spitz & F. Gaynor Dict. Astron. 106 Coudé focus, an arrangement, used only on the largest reflecting telescopes, by which the focal length is greatly increased, and making it possible to have the spectrograph or the camera not attached to the telescope but in a separate room.
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