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RESOLVING POWER OF TELESCOPES AND SPECTROSCOPES.—In the current number of the Memorie della Società Degh Spettroscopisti Italiani (vol. xxvi., 1897), Prof. F. L C. Wadsworth discusses the question of the theoretical resolving power of optical instruments, distinguishing between four different cases. According to Rayleigh, the theoretical angular resolving power of any instrument having an aperture of width b is
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 56, 62–63 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056062a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056062a0