Which optical effect degraded early astronomical telescope observations using simple lenses?

💡 Explanation

Simple lenses exhibit chromatic aberration because different wavelengths of light refract differently, creating color fringes around observed objects, limiting resolution. Therefore, color fringing becomes problematic, rather than spherical aberration, coma, or astigmatism which require more complex optical configurations or lens imperfections.

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