• notabot@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I think the pupil size calculation is based on defraction, so it doesn’t matter how dense your retina is, if your pupils are smaller than that you still wont see enough detail. This is one of the reasons why we keep building bigger telescopes and especially telescope arrays. The bigger the effective apeture, the finer the detail it can resolve.