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  2. Bahtinov mask - Wikipedia

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    The telescope is pointed at a bright star, and a mask is placed in front of the telescope's objective (or in front of the aperture). The mask consists of three separate grids, positioned in such a way that the grids produce three angled diffraction spikes at the focal plane of the instrument for each bright image element.

  3. Lucky imaging - Wikipedia

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    Used at a 1% selection or less, lucky imaging can reach the diffraction limit of even 2.5 m aperture telescopes, a resolution improvement factor of at least five over standard imaging systems. Zeta Bootis imaged with the Nordic Optical Telescope on 13 May 2000 using the lucky imaging method.

  4. Photometry (astronomy) - Wikipedia

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    A number of free computer programs are available for synthetic aperture photometry and PSF-fitting photometry. SExtractor [37] and Aperture Photometry Tool [38] are popular examples for aperture photometry. The former is geared towards reduction of large scale galaxy-survey data, and the latter has a graphical user interface (GUI) suitable for ...

  5. f-number - Wikipedia

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    The f-number N is given by: = where f is the focal length, and D is the diameter of the entrance pupil (effective aperture).It is customary to write f-numbers preceded by "f /", which forms a mathematical expression of the entrance pupil's diameter in terms of f and N. [1]

  6. Angular resolution - Wikipedia

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    The Rayleigh criterion shows that the minimum angular spread that can be resolved by an image-forming system is limited by diffraction to the ratio of the wavelength of the waves to the aperture width. For this reason, high-resolution imaging systems such as astronomical telescopes, long distance telephoto camera lenses and radio telescopes ...

  7. Catadioptric system - Wikipedia

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    The Houghton telescope or Lurie–Houghton telescope is a design that uses a wide compound positive-negative lens over the entire front aperture to correct spherical aberration of the main mirror. If desired, the two corrector elements can be made with the same type of glass, since the Houghton corrector's chromatic aberration is minimal.

  8. Aperture synthesis - Wikipedia

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    Aperture synthesis is possible only if both the amplitude and the phase of the incoming signal are measured by each telescope. For radio frequencies, this is possible by electronics, while for optical frequencies, the electromagnetic field cannot be measured directly and correlated in software, but must be propagated by sensitive optics and interfered optically.

  9. Optical telescope - Wikipedia

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    The Large Binocular Telescope at the Mount Graham International Observatory in Arizona uses two curved mirrors to gather light. An optical telescope gathers and focuses light mainly from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, to create a magnified image for direct visual inspection, to make a photograph, or to collect data through electronic image sensors.

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