If the lens is magnifying 10x, shouldn’t there be just 1/10 of the light reaching the eye?
In photography you compensate it with long exposure, but with live lenses?
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You look through an eyepiece when using a telescope. The other end of the telescope is larger. With 10x magnification, the telescope is taking the light from an area 10 eyepieces in size and squeezing it down to 1 eyepiece in size. That’s 10 times as much light for your eyeball.
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