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solid angle comparison table

Subject	has unit	is a kind of	has value	has definition
isoplanatic patch		solid angle		The angular region on the sky over which the wavefront correction applied by an adaptive optics system remains valid. It is relatively small and therefore a nearby reference star is also required.

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