: the lens in a compound eyepiece that is nearer the objective
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The telescope’s visible-light camera sensitivity is on par with the Hubble Space Telescope’s wide-field lens, but with an exponentially larger vantage.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
25 June 2026