What is the diameter of Celestia's virtual magnifying telescope?

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What is the diameter of Celestia's virtual magnifying telescope?

Post #1by john71 » 29.01.2019, 13:20

Here is the maximum magnified view of Pluto from Earth orbit in Celestia 3D.

Pluto Cel.png


Is it possible to measure or estimate the diameter of Celestia's virtual magnifying telescope?

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If I'm correct, the angular resolution of a telescope is given by θ=1.22λ/D where D is the diameter of the
aperture.

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This is Hubble's view of Pluto from 2003:

pluto.jpg


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This is the magnified Pluto from Celestia:

celestia big pluto.png


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So does it mean that Celestia has the magnifying ability of the Hubble Space Telescope?

I think it is obsolete now.

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2018_Phase_I_Phase_II/Kilometer_Space_Telescope

We should use the Kilometer Space Telescope in Celestia 3D instead.

What do you think?

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Post #2by John Van Vliet » 29.01.2019, 23:44

that really is not a Hubble image but a processed one by "mark buie at.al "

this is the raw hubble images
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and a zoom of pluto from the earth ( zoomed in in gimp )
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Post #3by john71 » 30.01.2019, 12:58

Thanks for the raw images!

Actually this is the Celestia image in "raw" form:

pluto unprocessed.png


I think the difference is 3 times more pixels in Celestia.

So Celestia has a 7-8 meter wide "telescope".

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It seems that Celestia is a little bit better than the James Webb Space Telescope.


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