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optical matching
subject			fact

optical matching	has wavefront modification shape
	has definition The use of lenses or other optical devices to match the size of the image of the seeing disk, as it appears in the focal plane of the telescope, to the physical size of the CCD pixels. If the telescope yields 10 arcseconds per millimeter and the seeing is 1 arcsecond then the image is 0.1 mm in size. But a typical CCD pixel is 0.022 mm, five times smaller.
	is a kind of wavefront modifier
instrument	has operator
artifact	has creator
	has creation date
	has purpose
	has owner
physical object	has location or center of gravity
	has angular momentum
	has mass
	has velocity
	has momentum
	has temperature
	has volume
	has extent
	has material

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