Coma is an aberration which causes rays from an off-axis point of light in the object plane to create a trailing "comet-like" blur directed away from the optic axis. A lens with considerable coma may produce a sharp image in the center of the field, but become increasingly blurred toward the edges. For a single lens, coma can be partially corrected by bending the lens. More complete correction can be achieved by using a combination of lenses symmetric about a central stop.