03-14-2016, 07:34 PM
Just two or three other questions for PT:
"It will have 300 times the field of view that Hubble has. Hubble is now imaging exoplanets within 300 light-years, this Chinese space telescope may be able to image atmosphere and land masses of small, rocky exoplanets."
1) How does a telescope with a larger field of view image the atmospheres of small rocky exoplanets (for sensible people, the wider field of view actually means the telescope won't be able to do that);
2) You keep saying that telescopes can only focus on one star at a time, so what is your opinion of having a telescope that has such a large field of view which means it can image millions of stars in one go, but can only focus on one of them at any given time?
3) Do you know what "field of view" actually means?
"It will have 300 times the field of view that Hubble has. Hubble is now imaging exoplanets within 300 light-years, this Chinese space telescope may be able to image atmosphere and land masses of small, rocky exoplanets."
1) How does a telescope with a larger field of view image the atmospheres of small rocky exoplanets (for sensible people, the wider field of view actually means the telescope won't be able to do that);
2) You keep saying that telescopes can only focus on one star at a time, so what is your opinion of having a telescope that has such a large field of view which means it can image millions of stars in one go, but can only focus on one of them at any given time?
3) Do you know what "field of view" actually means?