• pixel of the image. While in some instruments, like cameras and telescopes, spatial resolution is directly connected to angular resolution, other instruments...
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    "Canicule ? Il fait 330 degrés sur la petite exoplanète découverte par le télescope spatial TESS". Numerama (in French). 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2019-07-30. Garner...
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  • Chinese Giant Solar Telescope (CGST) is a proposed solar telescope in China. CGST will be an infrared and optical solar telescope. Its spatial resolution is...
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    Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI), run by an arm of the University of California, Berkeley, is an array of three 1.65 meter telescopes operating...
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    is low for a system with a high resolution. The closely related term spatial resolution refers to the precision of a measurement with respect to space...
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    The Hubble Space Telescope (HST or Hubble) is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation. It was not the...
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    April 2014, NASA astronomers reported that the Hubble Space Telescope, by using spatial scanning, can precisely measure distances up to 10,000 light-years...
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  • focusing mirror was an 18″ f/4.5 paraboloid. Examples of Pfund telescopes are the Infrared Spatial Interferometer Array at the University of California at Berkeley...
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    Multi-unit spectroscopic explorer (category Telescope instruments)
    high spatial resolution and a large simultaneous spectral range (480-930 nm). It is specifically designed to take advantage of the improved spatial resolution...
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  • lens' focal ratio. As an example, a telescope having an f/6 objective and imaging at 0.55 micrometers has a spatial cutoff frequency of 303 cycles/millimeter...
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    the telescope in all six spatial degrees of freedom and also provides a strong structural integrity. GoTo (telescopes) History of the telescope List...
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    This list of space telescopes (astronomical space observatories) is grouped by major frequency ranges: gamma ray, x-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared...
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    récemment obtenu l'opportunité d'observer le système Luhman 16 avec le télescope spatial Hubble. Inaf, Ufficio stampa (2019-01-31). "Tana per la galassia dietro...
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    A Ritchey–Chrétien telescope (RCT or simply RC) is a specialized variant of the Cassegrain telescope that has a hyperbolic primary mirror and a hyperbolic...
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  • also use "spatial coherence" to refer to the visibility when a wave-like state is combined with a spatially shifted copy of itself. Spatial coherence...
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    The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is an astronomical facility operated since 1998 by the European Southern Observatory, located on Cerro Paranal in the Atacama...
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    low contrast along the bars, and go from narrow (high spatial frequency) to wide (low spatial frequency) bars across the width of the grating. The high-frequency...
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    Diffraction-limited system (category Telescopes)
    the construction. For microscopic instruments, the diffraction-limited spatial resolution is proportional to the light wavelength, and to the numerical...
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    Wavelength (redirect from Spatial period)
    In physics and mathematics, wavelength or spatial period of a wave or periodic function is the distance over which the wave's shape repeats. In other...
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    exploit the full spatial resolution of the SST, and has good polarimetric properties. List of solar telescopes Dutch Open Telescope Scharmer, Göran; Owner-Petersen...
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    Bahtinov mask (category Telescopes)
    exhibits asymmetric spikes representing the transform of the mask pattern's spatial frequency and orientation. A very bright star and very dark sky are required...
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  • -118.0644 The Infrared Spatial Interferometer (ISI) is an astronomical interferometer array of three 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) telescopes operating in the mid-infrared...
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    This is a list of radio telescopes – over one hundred – that are or have been used for radio astronomy. The list includes both single dishes and interferometric...
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    portion of the modulation transfer function (MTF) over a range of low spatial frequencies, compared to a full-aperture design such as a refractor or...
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    operational in December 2003. In 2004 H.E.S.S. was the first IACT experiment to spatially resolve a source of cosmic gamma rays. In 2005, it was announced that...
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    imagers. There are push broom scanners and the related whisk broom scanners (spatial scanning), which read images over time, band sequential scanners (spectral...
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    ground-based telescopes (like the Keck Telescope and the Very Large Telescope), and is a high contrast imaging mode on the James Webb Space Telescope. This technique...
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  • produces an output which is one component of the Fourier transform of the spatial distribution of the brightness of the observed object. The image (or "map")...
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    Horizon Telescope". The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2041–8205). Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2021). "First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results...
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  • they all observe the same source at the same time, allowing much higher spatial resolution. There are many complex and challenging hurdles that need to...
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