What angular resolution would you need to see the Sun and Jupiter as distinct points of light if you were looking at it from 15 light years away?

Great question to chew on! And I think I can work it out, at least to an order-of-magnitude approximation Radius of Jupiter's orbit is around 5 AU = 5 x 93 million = 465,000,000 miles 15 light years = 15 x 5.8787 x 10 12 8.818 x 10 13 miles (Tangent) 1 of (5 AU / 15 LY) = 0.000302 degree = roughly like 1.09 arc-second There's a rule for the resolution you need in order to completely resolve two sources that subtend a given angle, and I don,t remember what it is. But the order of magnitude for this particular case is about 1 arc-second ... with one bright object and a dim one.

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