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A gaint refrecting telescope at an observatory has an objective lens of focal length `15 m`. If an eye piece lens of focal length `1 cm` is used, find the angular magnification of the telescope.
If this telescope is used to view the moon, what is the diameter of image of moon formed by objective lens ? The diameter of the moon is `3.42 xx 10^6 m` and radius of lunar orbit is `3.8 xx 10^8 m`.

A

`1500`

B

`3000`

C

`750`

D

`2000`

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