Point of contact of conic tangent to a family of lines passing through a point on the axis
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Again, we can force the tangency by reflecting one focus in the tangent line and joining the reflection to the other focus, then intersecting the result with the given tangent.

We observe the locus of the tangent point is a circle with the center and radius shown.

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