The resolving power of a telescope is ____
a. a measure of the minimum angular separation that can be seen with the telescope.
b. a measure of the maximum angular separation that can be seen with the telescope.
c. a measure of the amount of light that the telescope can gather in one second.
d. the separation between the objective and the image.
e. a measure of how blurry object appear in the telescope.
A
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