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telescopes - Coggle Diagram
telescopes
telescope basics
optics and mounts
Primary,Cassegrain,Nasmyth ,Coudé
equatorial vs. alt-az
assumptions & basic setup
parallel rays of light
point vs. extended
focal length
aberrations
Astigmatism
Distortion
coma
Field curvature
spherical aberration
Vignetting
quantifying the performance
focal ratio
field of view
plate scale
PSF, angular resolution
FWHM
point spread function
seeing
adaptive optics
SNR
signal-to-noise ratio & exposure time