On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yes, Hubble is a deep space telescope. No comparison. > > > NASA says they can use 'em for a wide angle application.
I'm sure. But "wide" is a relative term. "According to the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field has an angular size of 11.5 square arcminutes. That means that it would take 12,913,983 Deep Field images to cover the entire sphere of the sky!" http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=720 If it could focus on the Earth, it could count your pubic hairs. ;-) T
