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Spherical Aberration
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Description: (a) Different parts of a spherically concave mirror reflect light to slightly different
focal points. This effect, spherical aberration, causes image blurring. This problem
can be overcome by (b) using a parabolic mirror or (c) using a Schmidt corrector plate
(a specially curved lens) in front of the telescope.

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