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



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:



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This is the magnified Pluto from Celestia:



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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I think it is obsolete now.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?

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

this is the raw hubble images


and a zoom of pluto from the earth ( zoomed in in gimp )

Thanks for the raw images!

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



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.