Why do atmospheric turbulent cells affect telescopes differently by size?

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I don't understand why these turbulent cells in the atmosphere tend to cause different problems in larger and smaller scale telescopes. anyone who can help me out?
 

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skiboka33 said:
I don't understand why these turbulent cells in the atmosphere tend to cause different problems in larger and smaller scale telescopes. anyone who can help me out?
If you have a telescope with the whole eddy in sight it is different from a telescope with some plus and some minus effect altogether...
In the first case a total random error takes place in the second a adding of some plus and some minus error. In the first place a total random error and in the second place perhaps a systematic plus or minus error.
What I am am interested in: so you have a impression of the largeness of the eddies?
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