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Smaller CCD means you dont have to worry about a field flattner. A bigger chip will require some correction to match the curved field.
Unfortunately the curvature on the film plane is very strong and combined with a fast f ratio of F1.5 or so the images on a flat film plane will defocus very quickly very close to the optical axis.

You would probaly only have field of view of a fraction of a mm diameter before the star images grew unacceptably big.
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