"Magnification" isn't quite the word you want. The small telescopes are quite capable of measuring the changing brightness of bright variable stars, moving obj

"Magnification" isn't quite the word you want. The small telescopes are quite capable of measuring the changing brightness of bright variable stars, moving objects (asteroids and comets), and supernovae and other explosions. Here's a movie taken with a lens of this size at a site in the high Arctic (hence the circumpolar rotation): http://user.physics.unc.edu/~nmlaw/arctic_cameras/arctic_camera_movie.mp4 http://user.physics.unc.edu/~nmlaw/arctic_cameras/arctic_cam...