Optical design of the Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) of INTEGRAL

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The Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) will observe the optical emission from the main targets of the gamma-ray instruments onboard the ESA mission INTEGRAL. The OMC is based on a refractive optics with an aperture of 50 mm focused onto a large format CCD (1024 2048 pixels), and a field of view of 5 5. This paper describes the design of the optical system and the optical baes of the OMC.