Question to anyone...
Is it possible to build a telescope that uses just light sensitive charge coupled devices instead of mirrors?
Any imaging success you get from CCD’s will only be improved by focusing incoming light using large mirrors. It makes sense to use both, which is what modern telescopes generally do.
As a physics Ph. D., I’m going to venture to say “No”, as to the general idea, because CCD’s don’t preserve phase information the way mirrors and lenses do.
“Let us now praise optics”