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Performance

Although the off-axis mirrors introduce significant aberrations, the images are still diffraction-limited at 2 tex2html_wrap_inline1109 m across the entire 12'' field at 0.05 ''/pixel. The aberrations are more significant with the 0.08 ''/pixel image scale particularly in the J band, but as a diffraction-limited image cannot be fully sampled with this pixel scale, the images are completely adequate. Encircled energy plots are shown in Figure 10.

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Figure 10: Encircled Energy diagrams for Martini



Shaun Hughes
Thu Mar 14 14:48:38 GMT 1996