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5" refractor for photographing planets
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26-02-2006, 12:32 PM
janoskiss
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Do you have any idea how close a 5" would come to that kind of detail?
Angular resolution is proportional to aperture, so a 5" will have 5/6 = 83% the resolution, or capture (5/6)*(5/6) = 69% the detail of a 6".
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