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The standard that the optics of a telescope must achieve, if the instrument is to deliver its Rayleigh resolution. The criterion is that the deviations of the wave front from perfection must be less than λ/4. See also: diffraction limited optics; λ/8 criterion.
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Kitchin, C. (2002). L. In: Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0175-8_12
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