Spherical Aberration

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4798.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4798. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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The inability of a spherical lens or mirror to bring all parallel rays of light to the same focus. When light reflects from a mirror, the surface of which has a shape that is part of a sphere, the position at which an incident ray is focused depends on its distance from the optical axis (the line that passes through the center of the mirror, perpendicular to its surface). Rays that reflect from p...

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