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Despite their close approach, the two planets will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but viewing each planet individually through a telescope could help bring out details such as Saturn's rings.
—Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 17 Jan. 2025
The sun is far larger than the WF/PC field of view, so the engineers programmed Hubble to execute a series of very small movements to scan across the sun, taking a series of split-second exposures to map out our star in a mosaic.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Jan. 2025
This means that the total effective field of view sums up to a mammoth 300 degrees!
—New Atlas, 16 Jan. 2025
Prism configurations produce a large, colorful image with a wide field of view, but are bulky and dim your surroundings.
—Will Greenwald, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
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1763, in the meaning defined above
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“Field of view.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20of%20view. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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