i believe its an 8 minute delay for what we see from the sun. If you use a telescope, does it cut down on some of the time?
2007-09-03 17:36:28 · 11 answers · asked by swelzba 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No, a telescope only collects light reaching the scope; it doesn't change the time on how long it took that light to reach the scope.
2007-09-03 17:42:07 · answer #1 · answered by malinmo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
True, there is an 8 minute travel period from the Sun to the Earth.
However, a telescope does not reduce that time. (Assume that you know never to look through a telescope at the Sun - causes instant blindness.)
A telescope makes it easier to see things in the distance because it captures more light, focuses it and delivers it to the eye so it can be seen.
The lense in your eye is only about 3/8 of an inch in diameter. The objective lenses (in some cases they are mirrors) of modern telescopes can be from 3 or 4 inches up to 24 or more inches in diameter. Thus they can capture more light and help us see faint things better.
2007-09-03 18:25:57 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nearly everyone here, but the first idiot to answer, is on the right track. Now then this might take a little thought but try to picture what I am about to tell you. A telescope does not really magnify anything that is what a microscope does.
A telescope takes large parts of information (in this case light from distant objects) and defuses it over a viewable area. You see there is no such thing as proton dilution and the light that reaches us is the same light that left that object all those many years ago. This means that there is no lose of information from those systems. But it also means that the light coming from them can take so long to get here that they are lost but to the largest and sharpest of mirrors.
2007-09-03 18:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A valid question but no. The lens of the telescope cannot accelerate time or light speed. Every you time you look up at the stars you're looking back in time because it takes so long for some of the light from them to get to Earth. The universe is in motion. Except for maybe the nearest stars to us, a lot of those stars are not even in the same position as they were when the light left them. So every night you're really looking back in time.
2007-09-03 20:55:53 · answer #4 · answered by ericbryce2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're extremely maximum suitable! the gentle you notice from any action picture star has been vacationing by using area oftentimes for 1000's of years. you're because of the fact action picture star because it become, not as this is solid now. In a feeling you're finding into the previous. Even gentle from our very own action picture star, the sunlight, takes approximately 8 minutes to realize Earth. in case you comprehend precisely the place to look interior the summertime sky, you additionally could make out the Andromeda Galaxy that's approximately 2.5-million gentle years away. this is the farthest merchandise the human eye can see. the gentle that reaches Earth immediately left Andromeda 2.5-million years in the past, concerning the time our species commencing strolling around on 2 legs.
2016-11-14 03:25:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not..! If an object is 10 light years distant, that's how long it takes light to arrive at your eyes. If you're looking at the object through a telescope it still took the light you're seeing 10 years to arrive.
2007-09-03 17:42:11 · answer #6 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. A telescope simply is able to gather more light than we can with our unaided eyes, and focus it into a tiny area. This allows us to see details that were unable to be discerned before.
2007-09-03 17:42:19 · answer #7 · answered by Dan 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The speed of light does't change no matter what.
Your close up view of a happening doesn't change any thing except it can change our understanding of something.
Look at a drop of water under a microscope. See all the tiny bugs squiggling? that doesn't change the water only our understanding of the life with in the water.
2007-09-03 17:46:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Duh, no....... A telescope only magnifies the light. The light seen using the telescope is the same light seen by the naked eye if both are at the same distance from the source. Sorry reality is A *****...
2007-09-03 17:51:25 · answer #9 · answered by edmond_dixon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
and dont look at the sun with a telescope
you will burn a hole right through your head
2007-09-03 17:42:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋