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6 hours ago · A lens is a transmissive optical device that focuses or disperses a light beam by means of refraction. A simple lens consists of a single piece of transparent material, while a compound lens consists of several simple lenses ( elements ), usually arranged along a common axis.
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6 hours ago · A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image. [ 4][ 5]: 145 Fisheye lenses achieve extremely wide angles of view, well beyond any rectilinear lens. Instead of producing images with straight lines of perspective ( rectilinear images ), fisheye lenses ...
6 hours ago · Extraterrestrial sky. A historic extraterrestrial sky— Earthrise, the Earth viewed from the Moon. Taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit, December 24, 1968. In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view of outer space from the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth .
