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. Damiano...
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Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. The telescope was inaugurated as the world's premier high spatial resolution optical solar telescope in 1969. With a horizontal...
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Mount Wilson Observatory (redirect from Hooker Telescope)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Angular resolution (redirect from List of telescopes by angular resolution)
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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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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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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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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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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High-energy replicated optics (category Telescope stubs)
high-pressure gas scintillation proportional counter with relatively low spatial resolution. High energy X-ray imaging technology X-ray astronomy B.D. Ramsey...
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Coherence (physics) (redirect from Spatial coherence)
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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High Energy Stereoscopic System (redirect from HESS telescope)
2003.[citation needed] In 2004 H.E.S.S. was the first IACT experiment to spatially resolve a source of cosmic gamma rays.[citation needed] In 2005, it was...
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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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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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Atacama Large Millimeter Array (redirect from ALMA radio telescope array)
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is an astronomical interferometer of 66 radio telescopes in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, which observe electromagnetic...
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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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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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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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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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Chandra X-ray Observatory (redirect from Chandra X-ray Telescope)
Karovska, M.; Nichols, J. S.; Swartz, D. A.; et al. (2000). "Discovery of Spatial and Spectral Structure in the X-Ray Emission from the Crab Nebula". The...
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Catadioptric system (redirect from Catadioptric telescope)
the lens. Their modulation transfer function shows low contrast at low spatial frequencies. Finally, their most salient characteristic is the annular...
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Astrosurf. 7 June 2012. "Thierry Legault - Le transit de Vénus... et du telescope spatial Hubble". Astrophoto.fr. Thierry Legault; Serge Brunier (2004). Le...
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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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Cassegrain reflector (redirect from Cassegrain telescope)
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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Integral field spectrograph (category Telescopes)
objects are spatially resolved by large telescopes. For spectroscopic studies, the optimum would then be to get a spectrum for each spatial pixel in the...
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