Comment on What if we aimed the Hubble Telescope at Earth?
nucleative@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tl:dw Hubble is designed to look at objects really far away and isn’t calibrated for Earth or fast enough to track a single spot long enough for good exposure, so the earth would be blurry.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Now, if we had the ability to focus at earth distance with proper stabilization, what would we see?
umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
earth
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yes but to what degree of magnification? Would we see a city, a street, a car, a person…?
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I did some napkin math and came to about 3.5 miles of field of view of pointed at the earth.
Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Earth
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Apparently you spinning in a chair if you have a skylight over it