"mirror" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The diameter of the Hubble's light-gathering mirror is 94.5 inches, while the diameter of the Keck's segmented mirror will be 33 feet.
- All proposed designs for the OWL are variations on a segmented mirror, since there is no technology available to build a monolithic 60- or 100-meter mirror.
- The operation of a segmented mirror is somewhat more complicated than a monolithic one, requiring careful alignment of the segments (a technique called cophasing).
- Its segmented, deployable mirror will be over twice as large, increasing angular resolution noticeably, and sensitivity dramatically.
- Considerable improvement of the performance of the segmented mirror can be achieved by introduction of three degrees of freedom per segment: piston, tip and tilt.
- A segmented mirror is an array of smaller mirrors designed to act as segments of a single large curved mirror.
- The Keck I telescope, which was successfully tested with part of its segmented mirror in place last November, is based on an innovative design that some critics had considered risky.
- The architectures are a telescope with a monolithic primary mirror and two variations of a telescope with a large segmented primary mirror.
- The instrument used to detect the Cherenkov radiation usually comprises a large segmented mirror which reflects the Cherenkov light onto an array of photomultiplier tubes.
- Projects for future extremely large telescopes (ELTs) generally depend on the use of a segmented primary mirror.
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