As expected . . . The larger the telescope,- the greater it's resolving power
"Dawes' Limit". . .

SO weather your talking about 10X or 1000X The larger telescope will RESOLVE
more detail than a smaller telescope will at the same magnification!

So if you got a Killer 70mm capable of 100X per inch, with the most perfect
seeing the finest detail you could detect would be 1.4 arc seconds across.
While a 177mm working at 50X per inch would produce the SAME image scale, but
you could detect detail as small as .66 arc seconds across

- Roger Hart - ?:^)

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snip Except on truly terrible nights, I always see more detail at 120X in
the 177mm scope
than at 120X in the 70mm scope, despite the fact that this magnification is
still nowhere near the small scope's "limit" -- if such a concept
is meaningful.

- Tony Flanders