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by rocqua 501 days ago
Normally, diffraction and the effective aperture are what limit optical resolution. How does that work with gravitational lensing? Does the effective aperture become the diameter of the sun?
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I'm too ignorant to answer that, but the technical paper here [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11871] goes into a wealth of detail, and includes an image of Earth as it would appear to such a telescope (before and after post-processing) from 30 parsecs away. The optical properties of the solar gravitational lens are pretty astonishing.