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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4787.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4787. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation And Observational Techniques, Astronomical Instrumentation

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The distortion of off-axis images produced by lenses or mirrors. Rays of light that enter a lens, or reflect from a mirror, at an angle to its optical axis (the line passing perpendicularly through the center of the lens or mirror), form pear-shaped images. The magnitude of the distortion increases with increasing distance from the optical axis. This particular optical aberration derives its name...

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