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| Oct 6, 2019 at 13:22 | comment | added | uhoh | I think if you take realistic CCD sensor noise into consideration, your first sentence while possibly technically true, might be misleading. If the aperture area difference was a factor of 10 for example, for objects well above the noise level in the smaller telescope might indeed be imagable with exposures 10x longer, but if that gets near the detector noise level you may have to expose much longer to average it out. | |
| Oct 6, 2019 at 3:48 | history | answered | Bob Jacobsen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |