Question: Angular resolution This tells you the smallest object that you would be able to see through the telescope. E . g . whether you can

Angular resolution
This tells you the smallest object that you would be able to see through the telescope. E.g. whether you can distinguish two stars that are close together or whether they appear to be only one star.
E.g. two lines on a wall 2 mm apart can be distinguished by the naked eye from 2 m away.
tanA=22000
Which gives angle A as 3.5 minutes of arc. (60 minutes of arc in every degree)
The easiest way to calculate the resolution of the telescope is to look at the Moon and estimate the smallest thing you can see - e.g. the sea of Crises - estimate its size in comparison to the size of the Moon - e.g.110th the diameter of the Moon. You know that the Moon is 30 minutes of arc across so you can estimate the angular resolution of the telescope. You could also test it on stars - Mizar and Alcor in the Big Dipper: Mizar and Alcor are approx 4 minutes of Arc apart. Betelgeuse in Orion has a companion star only 1 minute of arc away - can you see it?
Angular resolution This tells you the smallest

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