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Homework Statement
A person uses a re-flecting telescope of dia= 20 cm and f=170 cm to observe light of λ = 600 nm from a star.
(a) find minimum angular resolution can he get?
°
(b) find the diameter of the Airy disk?
µm
(c) find the minimum separation distance of two objects on the Mars that the telescope can resolve? (The Earth-Mars distance is 3.83 10^8 m.)
Homework Equations
[tex]\theta[/tex] = 1.22 ([tex]\lambda[/tex] / D
The Attempt at a Solution
for part A, I used the relation above to solve for [tex]\theta[/tex] = 0.00021 degree
for part b and c, I don't know how to solve. Please help.
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