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06-01-2006, 01:04 AM
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Prime Focus
OK, It's late and I guess I was being lazy. I should have known this.
Google is your friend.
define:"prime focus"
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"prime focus"
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The point in a reflecting telescope where the mirror focuses incoming light to a point.
astronomy.nju.edu.cn/astron/AT3/GLOSS_P.HTM
A reflecting telescope's primary mirror focal point. Astronomers place cameras at prime focus to record bright, wide field images.
www.ccastronomy.org/terminology.htm
The focal point of the objective mirror or lens.
www.opticalvision.co.uk/content.asp
When the eyepiece is removed from a telescope and replaced with a camera body it is said to be at prime-focus. It is the point at which a telescope’s optics direct incoming light.
www.dirtyskies.com/index.php/glossary/
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