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Originally Posted by 4tune8chance
Ok a bit of a silly question – If we had evolved with compound eyes (like an insect, or perhaps a trilobite) would a conventional refraction or reflection telescope work for those eyes? if not, what would a telescope have to look like?
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We could have an eyepiece each for a red-filtered, green-filtered, blue-filtered, intrared, ultraviolet, gamma ray, and X-ray telescope and look through them AT THE SAME TIME. Radio waves would be too big.
But, of course, real astronomers don't look through telescopes, they take pictures. CCD's are so much more sensitive.