Abstract

The normal way to design visual instruments such as the terrestrial refracting telescope with a real exit pupil is to place the eye such that its entrance pupil coincides with the exit pupil of the instrument [1-3]. It is then said that all the light entering the objective at different off-axis angles will reach the eye. This assumption completely ignores the rotation of the eyeball and suggests that the eye is always looking in the forward direction.

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