Progress in Optics 
Subtitle: Volume 43 (Progress in Optics)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: May 1, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780444510228
First sentence: From the point of view of optics, the purpose of a telescope is to produce maximum light concentration of large fluxes in a star image, and, in general, maximum resolution, which is equivalent to optimum image quality.