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Why should the objective of a telescope have large focal length and large aperture? Justify your answer.

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Objective of a telescope is a convex lens of large focal length, because it faces distant object and bright image of distant objects.
The aperture of the objective is taken large so that it can gather sufficient amount of light from the distant objects.
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