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by blauditore 1551 days ago
The article fails to explain that, but round aperture is equivalent to infinitely many straight blades (and thus rays), so there is a light halo instead of distinct rays.
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Which is essentially also why you get more diffraction limited as you stop down the aperture -- a larger and larger fraction of the light that gets through passes near the edges (and gets diffracted) rather than the central area.