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  2. Magnification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnification

    Magnification beyond this maximum is sometimes called "empty magnification". For a good quality telescope operating in good atmospheric conditions, the maximum usable magnification is limited by diffraction. In practice it is considered to be 2× the aperture in millimetres or 50× the aperture in inches; so, a 60 mm diameter telescope has a ...

  3. Limiting magnitude - Wikipedia

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    More generally, for situations where it is possible to raise a telescope's magnification high enough to make the sky background effectively black, the limiting magnitude is approximated by = ⁡ + ⁡ (/) where and are as stated above, is the observer's pupil diameter in centimetres, and is the telescope transmittance (e.g. 0.75 for a typical ...

  4. Dawes' limit - Wikipedia

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    Dawes' limit is a formula to express the maximum resolving power of a microscope or telescope. [1] It is so named after its discoverer, William Rutter Dawes, [2] although it is also credited to Lord Rayleigh. The formula takes different forms depending on the units.

  5. Diffraction-limited system - Wikipedia

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    Radio telescopes are frequently diffraction-limited, because the wavelengths they use (from millimeters to meters) are so long that the atmospheric distortion is negligible. Space-based telescopes (such as Hubble, or a number of non-optical telescopes) always work at their diffraction limit, if their design is free of optical aberration.

  6. Optical telescope - Wikipedia

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    There are two values for magnification, a minimum and maximum. A wider field of view eyepiece may be used to keep the same eyepiece focal length whilst providing the same magnification through the telescope. For a good quality telescope operating in good atmospheric conditions, the maximum usable magnification is limited by diffraction.

  7. Astronomical seeing - Wikipedia

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    Slow motion movie of the image seen at a telescope when looking at a star at high magnification (negative images). The telescope used had a diameter of about 7r 0 (see definition of r 0 below, and example simulated image through a 7r 0 telescope). The star breaks up into multiple blobs (speckles) -- entirely an atmospheric effect.

  8. Airy disk - Wikipedia

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    where is the maximum intensity of the pattern at the Airy disc center, is the Bessel function of the first kind of order one, = / is the wavenumber, is the radius of the aperture, and is the angle of observation, i.e. the angle between the axis of the circular aperture and the line between aperture center and observation point.

  9. Angular resolution - Wikipedia

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    very long baseline interferometry array of different radio telescopes: a range of locations on Earth and in space [8] 2002 - Very Large Telescope/PIONIER: 0.001 (1 mas) light (1-2 micrometre) [9] largest optical array of 4 reflecting telescopes: Paranal Observatory, Antofagasta Region, Chile: 2002/2010 - Hubble Space Telescope: 0.04: light ...

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