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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4782.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4782. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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The bright spot at the center of the diffraction pattern that is formed when a point source, such as a star, is imaged at the focus of a telescope. Light waves from a distant star arrive at the Earth as a series of parallel wavefronts (rather like waves rolling onto a beach). When these wavefronts are interrupted at the edge of a telescope's aperture (the rim of the objective or primary mirror), ...

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