Diffraction spike
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diffraction-spike-161-12469092
title:
Diffraction spike
text:
Diffraction spikes are lines radiating from bright light sources, causing what is known as the starburst effect or sunstars in photographs and in vision. They are artifacts caused by light diffracting around the support vanes of the secondary mirror in reflecting telescopes, or edges of non-circular camera apertures, and around eyelashes and eyelids in the eye. While similar in appearance, this is a different effect to "vertical smear" or "blooming" that appears when bright light sources are cap
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Lines radiating from bright light sources in photographs
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
date created:
2005-12-29T22:43:54Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T14:33:05Z
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{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/NGC6397.jpg","width":5066,"height":3750}
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