Discussion about of the general effect of aperture and wavelength on the maximum sharpness of a telescope. By discussing the energy mechanisms behind diffraction, I try to explain why this relationship exists. In the last part I discuss the implications for the recently launched James Webb telescope. Contents: 0:00 Intro 2:43 Short experiment with aperture 4:47 About angular resolution 7:44 Resolution comparison of 3 different telescopes 10:13 Diffraction phenomena explained using energy as a basis 14:08 Experiment showing edge diffraction in real aperture 17:14 The James Web resolution explained using aperture and wavelength More about the background of the microscope experiment shown here is explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TshYf... Electromagnetic theory taken from Fundamental University Physics, Part 2: Electromagnetism by Marcelo Alonso and Edward J. Finn More information on the application of small telescopes can be found on the oresat.org website: http://oresat.org Aberrator 3.0 is a software program written by Cor Berrevoets to simulate star-images in different telescopes. It can be downloaded from aberrator.astronomy.net Where indicated, images from the NASA.gov website and Wikipedia.org were used. Link to the EON space labs pagina on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eonspacel... Image of Cubesat: https://www.satcatalog.com/component/... Huygens-Fresnel principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens... REMARK: Huygens Optics has NO commercial ties with any of the products or companies featuring in this video. Everything shown is meant exclusively for educational purposes. Short third party clips are sometimes used, assuming fair use policy and always with a reference to the original source in the description. Did I forget you? Please let me know and I will set it straight Please don't contact me for sponsoring contracts or in-video advertisement, it is not going happen. If you want to contribute, do so by either donating using Paypal or by contacting me directly.