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<h2 id="plate-scale-on-jwst-fgsniriss">Plate scale on JWST FGS/NIRISS</h2> <p>The plate scale of the <a href="/facts/James_Webb_Space_Telescope/w4GAWnWX">James Webb Space Telescope</a> component <a href="/facts/Fine_Guidance_Sensor_and_Near_Infrared_Imager_and_Slitless_Spectrograph/H4KRrbsx">Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph</a> is about 0.066 arcsec/pixel.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It uses a 2040 x 2040 pixel array with a pixel size of 18 microns per side with a <a href="/facts/Field_of_view/Xp1G4CXF">field of view</a> of 2.2' x 2.2' <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Photographic_plate/LbTmHKJb">Photographic plate</a></li></ul> <h2 id="notes">Notes</h2> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Carroll, Bradley; Ostlie, Dale. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (1st ed.). p. 163. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Observationalcapabilities <a href="https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Observationalcapabilities" target="_blank">https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Observationalcapabilities</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Opticalelements <a href="https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Opticalelements" target="_blank">https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-imager-and-slitless-spectrograph#JWSTNearInfraredImagerandSlitlessSpectrograph-Opticalelements</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>