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Revision as of 15:13, 20 June 2013
Welcome to the explain xkcd wiki!
We have an explanation for all 6 xkcd comics, and only 0 (0%) are incomplete. Help us finish them!
Latest comic
| Telescope Types |
 Title text: I'm trying to buy a gravitational lens for my camera, but I can't tell if the manufacturers are listing comoving focal length or proper focal length. |
Explanation
This comic shows diagrams of a number of different types of telescope, some real and others made up by Randall. It includes both refracting and reflecting designs; see 1791: Telescopes: Refractor vs Reflector for the important differences between them.
| Type | Real? | Reflactor/Reflector | Description |
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| Prime Focus | Yes | Reflector | |
| Herschelian | Yes | Reflector | |
| Newtonian | Yes | Reflector |
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You can read a brief introduction about this wiki at explain xkcd. Feel free to sign up for an account and contribute to the wiki! We need explanations for comics, characters, themes, memes and everything in between. If it is referenced in an xkcd web comic, it should be here.
- If you're new to wikis like this, take a look at these help pages describing how to navigate the wiki, and how to edit pages.
- Discussion about various parts of the wiki is going on at Explain XKCD:Community portal. Share your 2¢!
- List of all comics contains a table of most recent xkcd comics and links to the rest, and the corresponding explanations. There are incomplete explanations listed here. Feel free to help out by expanding them!
- We've actually now created pages for all xkcd comics but if you've arrived here early and a new comic hasn't been explained, you can create it: Here's how.
Rules
Don't be a jerk. There are a lot of comics that don't have set in stone explanations; feel free to put multiple interpretations in the wiki page for each comic.
If you want to talk about a specific comic, use its discussion page.
Please only submit material directly related to —and helping everyone better understand— xkcd... and of course only submit material that can legally be posted (and freely edited). Off-topic or other inappropriate content is subject to removal or modification at admin discretion, and users who repeatedly post such content will be blocked.
If you need assistance from an admin, post a message to the Admin requests board.
