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[twentysix by twentyfive]

Normally only if they record the image (which the Hubble Telescope* doesn't do) - unless you are referring to camera obscura.






*The 'telescope' bit is the giveaway. If it was a camera they'd have called it the 'Hubble Camera'

Err Hmmph well - I don't want to get pedantic but ordinary everyday cameras can have a telescopic lens. It's the image forming properties of "telescopes" and various arrangements of lenses/mirrors which are used in conjunction with "film" or "Detector arrays" which is normally referred to as a camera. Pleased be assured that Hubble takes pictures using a telescopic lens and a detector array. Lots of Pics can be found if you Google "Hubble images". So it's a kind of very expensive and special camera.

 

[classic33]

Good god. That's further than Yorkshire.

That'd depend on where you're coming from though.

 

[Maz]

My name is Michael Paine. And I am a nosy neighbour. Now, Mrs 'iggins who lives at number 20 claims to be a vegetarian. Yet I saw her. In the butcher's. Buying two pounds. Of cumberland. Sausages....

TWO POUNDS OF CUMBERLAND SAUSAGES!

How can you trust A woman like that?

 

[Cyclopathic]

By the very definition of the term "the right conditions" pretty much anything is possible. Under the right conditions I could pull Kelly Brooke and get her to pay for the hotel.

 

[Cyclopathic]

You can see the moon from the great wall of china.

 

[Risex4]

Only under the right conditions.

 

[Andy_R]

Only if you've pulled Kelly Brooke and are under her in the right conditions........

 

[Cyclopathic]

Only under the right conditions.

But of course. If I had a blanket over my head these would be the wrong conditions by which to see the moon from the g w of c. See. Or not. Depends on the conditions.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Only if you've pulled Kelly Brooke and are under her in the right conditions........

Somehow doubt that conditions will ever be quite that right.

 

[Risex4]

But of course. If I had a blanket over my head these would be the wrong conditions by which to see the moon from the g w of c. See. Or not. Depends on the conditions.

I was thinking more that the moon needed to be above the observable horizon and meteorological conditions would need to be correct, but yes - not having a blanket over your head would be another condition which would have to be met.

 

[asterix]

Under the right conditions, the human eye can see the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles!

Could you determine that the light source was in fact a candle? Without artificial aids similar in function but on a lesser scale to the Hubble telescope/camera/thingy.

 

[classic33]

Could you determine that the light source was in fact a candle? Without artificial aids similar in function but on a lesser scale to the Hubble telescope/camera/thingy.

Can you determine its not!
The human eye is also capable of making out the light from a match being struck at over 2 miles, when no other artificial lighting is available.

 

[asterix]

Yebbut what about light pollution? That must have a massive effect..

 

[Hover Fly]

under the right conditions the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), at 2.25 million (2,250,000) light years is the most distant thing the naked human eye can see

Some people with exceptionally good eyesight in excellent seeing conditions (at high altitudes in a dessert), who either know where to look or have had an astronomer to guide them have seen Bode's Galaxy in Ursa Major, M81, at 12M light years away.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Only under the right conditions.

Surely that's only under the 'light' conditions......?