Brian Africano discovered Asteroid 2018 RA and 2018 RW, which had just passed near to Earth. #365DaysOfAstro

Brian Africano discovered Asteroid 2018 RA and 2018 RW, which had just passed near to Earth. #365DaysOfAstro
What factors control the sharpness of our telescope’s images and how these processes determine the faint limit of the asteroids we are able to discover?
Will commercial providers be the future of space flight endeavours or will the real leaps still continue to be made by huge government institutions?
Thoughtful estimates suggest there maybe somewhere between 10 and 10,000 technical societies inhabiting other planets in our home galaxy. But where are they?