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Originally Posted by brian nordstrom
 You are wrong here , its a myth that say at 100x the image is 100x bigger , its actually bought 100x closer , so if you are viewing something say 10km away it would look only 1km seen naked eye at 1x away thru an eyepiece/telescope combo giving you 100x .
Jupiter at about 440 million km's away would look like it was 100x closer at 44 million km's away seen with the naked eye thru this combo .
Hope this helps .
Brian. |
The same way I cannot make an object bigger is the same way you cannot make an object closer. They only appear that way. Bigger or closer it doesn't matter, the ratio and is the same.
e.g. The Moon is 400x closer to us than the Sun and is also 400x smaller and that is why we have eclipses since the angular diameters are the same.