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Schmidt comparison table

Subject	has location	has comment	has owner	has latitude	has mirror maker	has optical design	has operator	has acronym	has mirror type	has altitude	is an instance of	has synonym	has focal ratio	has aperture	has mount	has mounting manufacturer	has longitude	has has mirror diameter	has mirror diameter	has creation date
2-meter Telescope	Tautenberg, Germany	can also be used in Cassegrain and coude modes	Karl Schwarzschild Observatorium	50° 59' N	Zeiss (Jena)	Schmidt			Schott ZK-7 glass	331 m	Fork equatorial telescope	Tautenberg Schmidt	f/3.00	1.34 m	equatorial fork	Zeiss (Jena)	11° 43'E	2 m	equal to aperture (except for Schmidt which has aperture smaller than mirror diameter)	1960
3TA-10 Schmidt Telescope	Mount Aragatz, Armenia	three 1 m diameter objective prisms	Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory	40° 20' N	LOMO	Schmidt			material and other engineering details	1450 m	Schmidt	Byurakan Schmidt	f/2.13	1.00 m	equatorial	LOMO	44° 30' E		1.5 m	1961
Calar-Alto-Schmidtspiegel	Calar Alto, Spain	Tube and optics moved from Hamburg, Germany, where the instrument had been in use since 1955	Calar Alto Observatory	37° 13' N	Zeiss (Jena)	Schmidt			material and other engineering details	2168 m	Fork equatorial telescope	Calar Alto Schmidt	f/3.0	0.80 m	equatorial fork	Grubb-Parsons	2° 32' W		1.2 m	1980
ESO 1-meter Schmidt Telescope	La Silla, Chile		European Southern Observatory	29° 15' S	Zeiss (Ober.)	Schmidt			Schott Duran 50	2318 m	Schmidt	ESO Schmidt	f/3.06	1.00 m	equatorial	Heidenreich & Harbeck	70° 44' W		1.6 m	1972
Kiso Schmidt Telescope	Kiso, Japan	alternate secondary mirror offers an f/22.6 Cass. focus	Kiso Observatory	35° 48' N	Nikon	Schmidt	Univ. of Tokyo		Cer-Vit	1130 m	Fork equatorial telescope		f/3.1	1.05 m	equatorial fork	Nikon	137° 38' E		1.5 m	1975
Kvistaberg Schmidt Telescope	Kvistaberg, Sweden		Uppsala University Observatory	59° 30' N	Uppsala Univ. Obs.	Schmidt			material and other engineering details	33 m	Schmidt	Uppsala Schmidt	f/3.00	1.00 m	equatorial	Various Swedish factories	17° 36' E		1.35 m	1963
Oschin 48-inch Telescope	Palomar Mountain, Calif., US	a new achromatic corrector plate (Grubb-Parsons) was installed in about 1984	Palomar Observatory	33° 21' N	Don O. Hendrix	Schmidt			material and other engineering details	1706 m	Fork equatorial telescope	Oschin Schmidt	f/2.47	1.24 m	equatorial fork	California Institute of Technology	116° 51' W		1.83 m	1948
Schmidt Telescope	Riga, Latvia		Radioastrophysical Observatory	56° 47' N	Zeiss (Jena)	Schmidt	Latvian Academy of Sciences		material and other engineering details	75 m	Schmidt		f/3.0	0.80 m	equatorial	Zeiss (Jena)	24° 24' E		1.2 m	1968
Télescope Combiné de Schmidt	Uccle, Bruxelles, Belgium		Observatoire Royal de Belgique	50° 48' N	Cox, Hargreaves, Thomson	Schmidt			borosilicate	105 m	Schmidt		f/2.5	0.84 m	equatorial	Zeiss (Jena)	4° 21'E		1.2 m	1958
Télescope de Schmidt	Calern, France		Observatoire de Calem	43° 45' N	Jean Texereau	Schmidt			Cer-Vit	1270 m	Schmidt	Calem Schmidt	f/3.5	0.90 m	equatorial	C.M.G-Paris	6° 56'W		1.52 m	1981
United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope Unit	Siding Spring Mtn., Australia		Anglo-Australian Observatory	31° 16' S	Grubb-Parsons	Schmidt		UKST	Cer-Vit	1145 m	Schmidt	U.K. Schmidt	f/2.5	1.24 m	equatorial	Grubb-Parsons	149° 04' E		1.83 m	1973
Venezuela 1-meter Schmidt	Llano del Hato, Merida, Venezuela	has a 1-m objective prism	Centro "EJ. Duarte"	8° 47' N	Askania	Concentric Schmidt			material and other engineering details	3610 m	Bent-yoke equatorial telescope		f/3.0	1.00 m	bent-yoke equatorial	Askania	70° 52' W		1.52 m	1978

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