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The advantages to building an observatory on the lunar surface in the absence of the atmosphere.
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When the "full" moon rises, the color is yellowish while its color directly overhead is white. Why?
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The moon is 3.5 × 106 m in diameter and 3.8 × 108 m from the earth’s surface. The 1.2-m-focal-length converging mirror of a telescope focuses an image of the moon onto a detector. What is the diameter of the moon’s image?
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The Hubble Space Telescope has a primary mirror with diameter 2.4 m. Suppose you were able to point it at Mars when the planct is at its closest point to the Earth in its orbit, which would be about 55.7 million km from the telescope. How close could two features on the Martian surface be and still be resolved (assume a wavelength in the middle of the visible spectrum - a number you should know at this point, at least approximately)?
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Use the terms luminous and illuminated to describe the visual relationship between the sun and the moon
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The Moon has no sustained atmosphere. What advantages would you have if you built an observatory on the lunar surface?
(Select all that apply.)
a. On Earth, large mirrors in telescopes can sag under their own weight. Without an atmosphere to apply pressure, mirrors on the Moon would not sag.
b. We could observe during the day. Without an atmosphere, sunlight is not scattered and the sky remains dark.
c. We could observe continuously, because there would never be any clouds.
d. The Moon is closer to many stars than the Earth, and lunar-based telescopes would produce images with more detail based on this closer proximity.
e. There is no atmosphere to absorb or scatter radiation, so all wavelengths of light could be observed with lunar-based telescopes, from radio waves to gamma rays.
f. Distortion of mirrors due to temperature shifts would no longer be an issue, without an atmosphere to retain the heat from sunlight.
g. Without atmospheric turbulence, there would be no…
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c)The telescope is able to discern more colors than the naked eye can.
d)The telescope is able to gather more light than the naked eye can.
Kepler's design allowed him to achieve better image quality and higher magnifications than Galileo's. However, his design has a significant drawback. What is it?
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b) Kepler's telescope is less able to collimate chaotic incoming light.
c) Kepler's telescope collects less light.
d) Kepler's image is inverted, while Galileo's is upright.
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