Image:Atmos struct imaging.png

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Schematic diagram illustrating how optical wavefronts from a distant star may be perturbed by a turbulent layer in the atmosphere. The vertical scale of the wavefronts plotted is highly exaggerated.

Taken from my thesis (http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/telescopes/coast/theses/rnt/node4.html)

By Bob Tubbs


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