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    Angular resolution describes the ability of any image-forming device such as an optical or radio telescope, a microscope, a camera, or an eye, to distinguish...
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    is the maximum resolution possible for a theoretically perfect, or ideal, optical system. The diffraction-limited angular resolution, in radians, of...
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    else being equal, the larger the aperture, the better the angular resolution. The resolution is not given by the maximum magnification (or "power") of...
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  • instruments, like cameras and telescopes, spatial resolution is directly connected to angular resolution, other instruments, like synthetic aperture radar...
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    corresponds to the angular resolution of the image (and, for frequency, the speed of the viewer's lateral movement), which is the angular aliasing of the...
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    Sparrow's resolution limit is an estimate of the angular resolution limit of an optical instrument. When a star is observed with a telescope, the light...
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    facility can achieve an angular resolution of approximately 0.002 arcsecond. In single telescope mode, the angular resolution is about 0.05 arcseconds...
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    along with the adaptive optics system MORFEO. HARMONI: The High Angular Resolution Monolithic Optical and Near-infrared Integral field spectrograph (HARMONI)...
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  • {\displaystyle \theta =1.22{\frac {\lambda }{D}}} where θ is the angular resolution in radians, λ is the wavelength of light in meters, and D is the diameter...
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    times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors. Since the Earth's atmosphere absorbs the vast majority...
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    The angular diameter, angular size, apparent diameter, or apparent size is an angular separation (in units of angle) describing how large a sphere or...
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  • (VLBI) stations around Earth, which form a combined array with an angular resolution sufficient to observe objects the size of a supermassive black hole's...
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    Archived from the original on 2021-01-24. Romney, Jon (2012-01-05). "8 Angular Resolution & u-v Coverage". National Radio Astronomy Observatory. Wikimedia Commons...
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    in resolution exceeds the observer's visual capabilities. For an HDTV's image to noticeably improve, its resolution per degree of arc (or angular resolution)...
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    000022 inches (560 nm; the mean of visible wavelengths). This is equal to the angular resolution of a circular aperture. The Rayleigh criterion for barely resolving...
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    slightly less pixel density is required in order to achieve the same angular resolution. Later products have had additional improvements, such as an increase...
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    In graph drawing, the angular resolution of a drawing of a graph is the sharpest angle formed by any two edges that meet at a common vertex of the drawing...
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    telescope aperture for which the diffraction limited angular resolution is equal to the resolution limited by seeing. Both the size of the seeing disc...
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  • resolving power may refer to: Angular resolution Spectral resolution Optical resolution Resolution (mass spectrometry) Resolution (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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    pupil diameter of the imaging system, in the same units, and the angular resolution δ is in radians. As with other diffraction patterns, the pattern scales...
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    scatters with a spatial resolution of ~20 nm at the specimen surface. The spatial resolution varies with the beam energy, angular width, interaction volume...
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    Khristoforova, M. (1 February 2005). "CHARM2: An updated Catalog of High Angular Resolution Measurements". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 431 (2): 773–777. Bibcode:2005A&A...
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  • angular subtense. Instead of single lines, line pairs are often used, composed of a dark line and an adjacent light line; for example, a resolution of...
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    of the array can be transformed to adjust the balance between its angular resolution and its surface brightness sensitivity. Astronomers using the VLA...
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    The use of interferometry allows radio astronomy to achieve high angular resolution, as the resolving power of an interferometer is set by the distance...
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  • transition wavenumber, wavelength or frequency, divided by the resolution. Angular resolution Resolution (mass spectrometry) - CRIRES Instrument page at ESO IUPAC...
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  • from a collection of telescopes to produce images having the same angular resolution as an instrument the size of the entire collection. At each separation...
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    with high degree then it necessarily will have small angular resolution, but the angular resolution can be bounded below by a function of the degree. The...
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    this technique is that it can theoretically produce images with the angular resolution of a huge telescope with an aperture equal to the separation, called...
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  • single Cherenkov photons, produced in a gaseous radiator (n~1.0005, angular resolution~0.6mrad) is shown in the following Fig.1: The different particle types...
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