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🔭 Space Telescope Bench: 2D Resolution and Sensitivity Lab

Drag stars around a simulated detector image and see how aperture, wavelength and central obstruction set the Airy diffraction pattern, the Rayleigh resolution limit and the limiting magnitude, while a Kepler orbit timeline decides when the target is above Earth's limb.

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Drag stars around a simulated detector image and see how aperture, wavelength and central obstruction set the Airy diffraction pattern, the Rayleigh resolution limit and the limiting magnitude, while a Kepler orbit timeline decides when the target is above Earth's limb.

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