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What's the answer for (b)
What's the answer for (b)
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A The Keck telescope on Mauna Kea has an angular resolution on Earth of half an arcsecond.
How far away (in meters) could you read ("resolve the letters of") a book with 3 mm square type, using the Keck telescope on Earth?
B In space, the angular resolution of the Keck telescope is govererned by the diffraction limit.
How far away could you read the same book, using the Keck telescope in space? Please express your answers in units of meters.
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