>>4604201

>>4604168

>What I've stated is fact

see

In optics, aberration is a property of optical systems such as lenses that causes light to be ….. as produced by propagation through atmospheric turbulence or aerodynamic flowfields

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_aberration

and consider that the lowest orbiting satellite is several hundred miles up…

photographing a dime on the ground is aerial observation territory, not satellite

>>4604380

>The other problem is our atmosphere. Light does not travel through it as it does free-space. They account for that in rather interesting ways with the various telescopes looking up.

exactly the point I was attempting to make with the aberration post

light traveling thru turbulent air is refracted in strange ways