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Chapter 32, Problem 62P
Under the best conditions, atmospheric turbulence limits ground-based telescopes’ resolution to about 1 arcsecond (1/3600 of a degree). For what apertures is this limitation more severe than that of diffraction at 550 nm? (Your answer shows why large ground-based telescopes don’t generally produce better images than small ones, although they do gather more light.)
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