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  2. Parabolic reflector - Wikipedia

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    An oblique projection of a focus-balanced parabolic reflector. It is sometimes useful if the centre of mass of a reflector dish coincides with its focus.This allows it to be easily turned so it can be aimed at a moving source of light, such as the Sun in the sky, while its focus, where the target is located, is stationary.

  3. Parabolic antenna - Wikipedia

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    A typical parabolic antenna consists of a metal parabolic reflector with a small feed antenna suspended in front of the reflector at its focus, pointed back toward the reflector. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The reflector is a metallic surface formed into a paraboloid of revolution and usually truncated in a circular rim that forms the diameter of the antenna ...

  4. File:Linear Parabolic Reflector Diagram (Concentrated Solar ...

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  5. Satellite dish - Wikipedia

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    The vertical axis operates as an off-axis concave parabolic concave hyperbolic [clarification needed] Cassegrain reflector, while the horizontal axis operates as a concave convex [clarification needed] Cassegrain. The spot from the main dish wanders across the secondary, which corrects astigmatism by its varying curvature. The elliptic aperture ...

  6. Cassegrain antenna - Wikipedia

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    A beam waveguide antenna is a type of complicated Cassegrain antenna with a long radio wave path to allow the feed electronics to be located at ground level. It is used in very large steerable radio telescopes and satellite ground antennas, where the feed electronics are too complicated and bulky, or requires too much maintenance and alterations, to locate on the dish; for example those using ...

  7. Stage lighting instrument - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic reflector has a lamp set at the focus point of a parabola-shaped reflector that bounces the light in parallel beams away from the reflector. There is no point at which the light converges, so the light is unfocusable. Parabolic reflectors are used for lights intended to provide an unfocused wash, such as PAR cans.

  8. List of radio telescopes - Wikipedia

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    45.7 m parabolic reflector. Owned by the U.S. Government and constructed by SRI on land leased from Stanford University, the Antenna Facility is known locally as "The Dish". Synthesis Telescope, seven-element interferometer: Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Kaleden, British Columbia, Canada Very Large Array (VLA) Socorro, New Mexico, US

  9. Newtonian telescope - Wikipedia

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    Newtonian telescope design. A Newtonian telescope is composed of a primary mirror or objective, usually parabolic in shape, and a smaller flat secondary mirror.The primary mirror makes it possible to collect light from the pointed region of the sky, while the secondary mirror redirects the light out of the optical axis at a right angle so it can be viewed with an eyepiece.