Landing Craft

Landing Craft
can hubble telescope show the lunar landing craft left there on the moon so there is now doubt its there?

James E is correct but made a math error I think. A 5/8 mile wide object is
ATN(5/8/240000)*3600 = 0.54 arc seconds wide.
Using Dawe’s limit, which is a kind of experimental rule of thumb, but kind of related to the diffraction calculation of James E, I calculate a 9 inch telescope could see that, just barely, as a featureless tiny dot. But the Apollo hardware is much smaller than 5/8 of a mile. It is more like 10 feet wide. A 10 foot wide object would be
ATN(10/240000/5280)*3600 = 0.0016 arc seconds wide.
Using Dawe’s limit, I calculate that the smallest telescope that could see that has a mirror 2,800 inches wide, under perfect conditions, and even then it could barely show it as a tiny dot with no visible shape. You would need a telescope several times larger to see any detail in that 10 foot object. Hubble is above the atmosphere, so it does enjoy perfect conditions, but it has a mirror only 94 inches wide. The smallest object a 94 inch mirror could see on the Moon would be about 300 feet wide, again as a tiny featureless dot. Anybody who knows anything about telescopes can tell you this and has, over and over and over again, but people would just rather believe in a hoax.

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