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Airy Disks Separated
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EdZ
, May 04 2004 08:35 AM
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- Uploaded: May 04 2004 08:35 AM
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The Rayleigh criterion 5.45/D or 138/Dmm gives a calculation for the separation of two Airy disks. The Dawes limit 4.56/D or 116/Dmm would have these disks overlapped. This for moderately bright stars about mag 5-6. Highly magnified diffraction and Airy disk images generated by Abberator, a freeware software written by Cor Berrevoets, Ritthem, The Netherlands, http://aberrator.ast....net/index.html
