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OK?
except I got ~ 7.5km or 5 miles must do more thinking.
The angular resolution (10 cm aperture) is about 7 microradian (1.4")
On 2009, Apr 30, , at 13:49, Gary Karshner wrote:
Bernard,
This reminds me of one of my favorite papers, in which Lord
Rayleigh calculated the focal length of a pinhole that had the
resolution
of a four inch telescope. It is something like 150 miles.
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