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    Evolution of The Astronomical Eyepiece: Achromatic & Wide-Field Eyepieces: The KELLNER (Cont.)

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    EVOLUTION of the ASTRONOMICAL EYEPIECE

    ACHROMATIC & WIDE-FIELD The KELLNER (Cont.):


    EYEPIECES:
    The achromatic wide-field eyepiece is a towards the field stop, and an over-cor-
    development of the positive Ramsden. rected doublet eye lens with the plano-
    Spherical aberration and longitudinal concave flint outwards. The field was
    chro mat ic aberration become objec- not wide, only about 30˚ at f/6, and the
    tionable in the simple Ramsden at focal eye relief a modest 0.4Fe. For the
    ratios faster than f/8. The field is microscope this was a decided
    restricted by coma (lateral spherical improvement, but the design needed
    aberration) because it is impossible to some slight modification for use as an
    correct coma using elements of the in ver ting ast ronomical eyepiece.
    same glass type. Kellner widened the field to 45˚f/6 by
    changing the form of the field lens from
    The availability of flint glass free from plano-convex to bi-convex, with the
    striae and bubbles from the mid- shallower face towards the field stop,
    1840’s made it feasible to design and and increasing the over-correction of
    manufacture, for the first time, an the eye doublet to compensate. T h e
    achromatized Ramsden which was free i n c r ease d po wer of t he negative
    of these restrictions. e leme nt also marginally ex tended
    the eye clearance to 0.45Fe.
    The KELLNER -
    T he Kellner in
    this modif ied
    f o rm gives wide,
    flat fields and
    excellent colour
    correction and
    orthoscopy.
    Ho we ver t he
    Kellner is noto-
    rio us f or gh ost-
    ing, a l t h o u g h
    m o d e r n a nti -
    reflection
    c o a t i n g s
    r e du c e the
    p r o b l em s ig -
    nificantly.

    This was done by an Austrian micro-


    scopist called Karl Kellner and
    described in his 1849 publication, “Das
    Orthoskopische Ocular”. The original
    Kellner eyepiece was intended for use
    as a microscope eyepiece and had a
    plano-convex field lens, plane surface

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