CPL.Luke Posted August 14, 2005 Posted August 14, 2005 how bigof a telescope would be required to make out thefine details of plutos surface?
ydoaPs Posted August 14, 2005 Posted August 14, 2005 i'm not sure you could(at least from earth). all the pictures i have seen of pluto were just blurry dots.
Kyrisch Posted August 14, 2005 Posted August 14, 2005 It depends of where you live as well; smogged-up air and cloud cover can greatly obscure one's view of the heavens.
CPL.Luke Posted August 14, 2005 Author Posted August 14, 2005 yeah, I was thinking more of a space telescope, I've seen the hubble images of pluto and like yourdadonapogos said they look pretty much like giant pixels
Janus Posted August 15, 2005 Posted August 15, 2005 yeah, I was thinking more of a space telescope, I've seen the hubble images of pluto and like yourdadonapogos said they look pretty much like giant pixels It would take a telescope with an aperture of about 32,000 in. to resolve objects as small as 5 km on the surface of Pluto.
CPL.Luke Posted August 15, 2005 Author Posted August 15, 2005 wow, thats big, what detail is the hubble able to resolve then, I always thought that the hubble had a good 20 kilometer resolution
mezarashi Posted August 15, 2005 Posted August 15, 2005 From my astronomy adventures, I don't think that you can "see" anything beyond Saturn. When they start to turn into dots on conventional (affordable) telescopes, it simply becomes absurd to observe them. Pluto is certianly out of the question.
Janus Posted August 15, 2005 Posted August 15, 2005 wow, thats big, what detail is the hubble able to resolve then, I always thought that the hubble had a good 20 kilometer resolution The Hubble has a resolution of .1 arc-secs.
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