Physics – Popular Physics
Scientific paper
2009-11-25
The Physics Teacher, Volume 48, Number 7 (October 2010), pp. 475-477
Physics
Popular Physics
The following article has been accepted by The Physics Teacher. After it is published, it will be found at http://scitation.ai
Scientific paper
10.1119/1.3488194
This paper is a discussion of the physics of magnification in telescopes.
Special attention is given to the question of whether telescopes magnify stars.
Telescopes do magnify star images, although opinions to the contrary abound.
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