Wien RC 1524 focal reducer: design overview

Wien 60″ telescope, Ritchey–Chrétien f/8.3 · both designs rebuilt in rayoptics from the OSLO prescriptions · regenerate with overview/make_overview.py
Flip between the two designs; the highlighted table column follows the selection.

Comparison

v1 · 0.7× v2 · 0.8×
prescriptionWienRC1524 8852 Reducer 0.7x V0.txtWienRC1524 Reducer 0.8x freie Höhen V00.txt
reduction0.7× (F/8.3 → F/5.81)0.8× (F/8.3 → F/6.64)
EFL (model)8853.7 mm10114.6 mm
plate scale23.30″/mm · 0.233″/px (10 µm)20.39″/mm · 0.204″/px (10 µm)
design full field1.0° (image Ø 154.5 mm)0.9° (image Ø 158.9 mm)
KL6060 FoV (61.4 mm sq.)23.8′ × 23.8′20.9′ × 20.9′
corrector layoutcemented triplet + singlet + field flattener · 6 air-glass surfacescemented doublet + cemented triplet · 4 air-glass surfaces
glass path (axial)S-FPL51 112 mm / S-BSL7 20 mm / S-BAL42 10 mmS-FPL51 82 mm / S-BAL35 18 mm / S-BSL7 10 mm
corrector front behind M1 vertex434.2 mm520.0 mm
vs. rear flange (480 mm behind M1, unconfirmed)corrector straddles it: S4 vertex 434 mm behind M1, glass extends to ~510 mmcorrector fully behind it: S4 vertex 520 mm behind M1
largest lens Ø246 mm (clear aperture)228 mm (physical, drawing)
glass envelope length195.7 mm (clear apertures)140.9 mm (physical, drawing)
BFD (last vertex → image)79.36 mm91.61 mm
rim → image clearance51.6 mm
at the OSLO clear aperture; no lens drawing available
61.2 mm
physical rim from the Objektiv drawing: concave surface polished to Ø 185, then a flat annular back face at 30.4 mm behind the vertex out to the Ø 210 rim
margin to CFW9-5 wheel front (OBFD 37.2 mm)14.4 mm24.0 mm
vignettingcorner vignetted by design: full illumination to ~0.467° (Ø 144 mm), ~70 % at the 0.5° cornerunvignetted: 100 % at the 0.45° edge, full illumination to 0.48° (with the physical apertures from the drawing)
Values come from the rayoptics rebuilds; the OSLO drawings print EFL 8854 mm (v1) and 10110 mm (v2). The camera-stack margin relies on the unconfirmed FLI flange→sensor estimate of 22.1 mm. v2 geometric rows use the physical diameters from the lens drawing; the prescription's „freie Höhen" aperture values are beam footprints, not stops. Further v2 caveats: yellow box on the v2 tab and the project notes (v2 0.8x/notes.md).

v1: 0.7× reducer (V0, Apr 2026)



v2: 0.8× reducer (V00 „freie Höhen", Aug 2026)

⚠ The „freie Höhen" prescription contains neither the mirror aspherics nor the wavelength set; both are copied from the v1 file. The spot diagrams are therefore provisional model results, and no reference spot diagram for v2 exists yet.


The figures are interactive: legend entries toggle ray bundles and annotations, and hovering a lens shows its prescription row. plotly.js loads from overview/, so the page also works offline; a CDN fallback covers a missing local copy.