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The image a telescope makes of a point source (in practice, a star) defines what we call the point-spread function, sometimes known as the instrument profile, of it. 1(a). Larger apertures produce smaller diffraction patterns. 1 WHAT TYPE OF TELESCOPE DO YOU NEED ? 1(a) Idealised representation of the diffraction pattern of a star produced by an unobstructed aperture (for example a refracting telescope). (b) In (i) a pair of stars are too close together for a given telescope to resolve them because the diffraction patterns merge.
Given, also, the high quality of their map, the general feeling was that ‘the last word’ had been stated as regards lunar studies. Few others studied the Moon seriously for more than the next quarter-century. However, one exception was Julius Schmidt. Schmidt had a lifelong interest in the Moon. After posts at various German observatories, he became Director of the Athens Observatory, in Greece, in 1858. He used the 7-inch (178 mm) refracting telescope there to continue his lunar studies. As well as revising the sections of the lunar maps of Lohrmann, and then going on to complete the mapping of the missing sections, Schmidt was eventually to complete one of his own by 1878.
1 star by using a 6-inch (152 mm) telescope. The predictions given by the formula are for stars seen against a very dark sky background. Even if the occultation is by the Moon’s dark limb and the brightly sunlit portion is out of the field of view, the light inevitably scattered from the sunlit portion into the sky around the Moon is sure to have some effect. If the star is occulted by the sunlit limb then one would be hard-pressed to see the event even if the star was a couple of magnitudes brighter than the value given by the formula.