Comatic aberration

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Comatic aberration or coma is an imperfection in the lens that results in off-axis point sources such as stars appearing distorted, appearing comet-shaped. Lenses with heavy coma can show sharp points of light in the center, but they become blurrier towards the edges of the frame.

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