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    The Barlow lens, named after Peter Barlow, is a diverging lens which, used in series with other optics in an optical system, increases the effective focal...
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    visible light are also called "lenses", such as microwave lenses, electron lenses, acoustic lenses, or explosive lenses. Lenses are used in various imaging...
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    the telephoto lens, in reflecting form, was first described by Johannes Kepler in his Dioptrice of 1611, and re-invented by Peter Barlow in 1834. Histories...
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    built an achromatic doublet lens of joined flint glass and crown glass. A derivative of this design, named a Barlow lens, is widely used in modern astronomy...
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    An achromatic lens or achromat is a lens that is designed to limit the effects of chromatic and spherical aberration. Achromatic lenses are corrected...
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    teleconverter or Barlow lens. A combined system of a lens and a focal reducer has smaller back focus than the lens alone; this places restrictions on lenses and cameras...
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    plano-concave lens fitted into an eyepiece adaptor which superficially resembles a Barlow lens. Coma of a single lens or a system of lenses can be minimized...
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    Eyepiece (redirect from Eyepiece lens)
    An eyepiece, or ocular lens, is a type of lens that is attached to a variety of optical devices such as telescopes and microscopes. It is named because...
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  • Look up barlow in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barlow may refer to: Barlow River (Chibougamau River), Quebec Barlow, Yukon, a local community of Yukon...
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  • percentage) and widen the field of view, providing opposite effects of a Barlow lens. Star Diagonal: Used to change the angle of the light coming out of a...
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  • or even 200 times (with a 5 mm in combination with the included 2× Barlow lens). However, a magnification of more than 125× would not be recommended...
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    altitude of about 36,089 feet (11,000 m). The photographer used a 1,200 mm (47 in) telescope and 2x Barlow lens in order to take this photo from the ground....
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    Teleconverter (category Photographic lenses)
    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Teleconverters. Barlow lens Canon Extender EF Convertible lens Nikon F-mount teleconverter Telecompressor Teleside...
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  • Bakelite – Leo Baekeland Barker code - Ronald Hugh Barker Barlow lens - Barlow's wheel – Peter Barlow Bath Oliver – William Oliver Beaufort scale – Sir Francis...
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    secondary lens or accessory lens is a lens designed to be used in conjunction with another lens, called the primary lens. A secondary lens may be designed...
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    higher magnifications the image quality significantly reduces, usage of a Barlow lens increases the effective focal length of an optical system—multiplies...
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    to attach to the rear of a regular lens. The Barlow lens, a negative achromat magnifier invented by Peter Barlow in 1833, is still used to increase the...
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    A binoviewer for an astronomical telescope. 1 - Eyepiece 2 - Compensation slide 3 - Prism 4 - Beam splitter 5 - Body 6 - Barlow lens...
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    like positive projection, produces a magnified image. A negative lens, usually a Barlow or a photographic teleconverter, is placed in the light cone before...
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  • Together with Peter Barlow, he also invented an afocal system to extend the focal length of telescopes, called the Barlow lens. He was born in London...
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    The first practical telephoto lens was developed by Peter Barlow in the early 1800s, with the eponymous Barlow lens referring to the negative achromat...
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  • for focus and another to switch in and out a magnification-doubling Barlow lens rounded out the controls. The cast-aluminum double-fork arm mount was...
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  • stability criterion, Barkhausen–Kurz tube Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist — Barlow lens Thomas Wilson Barnes, British chess master – Barnes...
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  • Life thru a Lens is the debut solo studio album by English singer-songwriter Robbie Williams. It was Williams' first solo album following his departure...
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  • Deirdre Barlow (also Hunt, Langton and Rachid) is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera Coronation Street, played by Anne Kirkbride. She...
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    photographed from the ground using a Canon 400D, a 1200mm telescope and 2x Barlow lens. Fat Albert, a U.S. Marine Corps C-130T Hercules with the Blue Angels...
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  • mounts and tripods. Tele Vue also manufactures special nebula filters, Barlow lenses, special image amplifiers known as Powermates, the "Paracorr" coma-corrector...
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    (Trans. Edin. Soc., 1791, 3, p. 3), P. Barlow, and F. S. Archer overcame the difficulty by constructing fluid lenses between glass walls. Fraunhofer prepared...
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  • (aerodynamics) Bargmann's limit Bargmann–Wigner equations Barkhausen effect Barlow's law Barlow lens Barn (unit) Barnett effect Baroclinity Barotropic Barotropic vorticity...
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    known as eyeglasses and spectacles, are vision eyewear with clear or tinted lenses mounted in a frame that holds them in front of a person's eyes, typically...
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