Asked by: David McLellan, Glasgow
The average human eye has a resolving power of around 1/60th of a degree, meaning that under good conditions it can see objects at distances up to roughly 3500 times the size of the object. The Moon being around 380,000km away, means that under ideal conditions we should be able to see objects around 100km across.
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