Plate scale

The plate scale of a telescope connects the angular separation of an object with the linear separation of its image at the focal plane.[1] See Photographic plate.

Notes

  1. ↑ Carroll, Bradley; Ostlie, Dale. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (1st ed.). p. 163.


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