Astronomical seeing

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Astronomical seeing by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-05 Updated 2026-10-20
Astronomical seeing is the atmospheric blurring of a stellar image, conventionally expressed as the angular full width at half maximum of its long-exposure point spread function, usually in arcseconds. For a large aperture in the ideal Kolmogorov model, it is approximately radians, with Fried parameter .

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