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Re: Lunar Distance Puzzle
From: UNK
Date: 2011 Aug 18, 17:42 +0000
From: UNK
Date: 2011 Aug 18, 17:42 +0000
On 2011-08-17 05:43, Frank Reed wrote: > Here's a hypothetical case I've been thinking through just in the past > fifteen minutes. Let's go to some spot on the Earth with the Moon > reasonably high in the sky and find some stars around the Moon at some > time T that are all five minutes of arc from the Moon's limb to the > nearest second of arc and spread around the Moon approximately every > 45 degrees in position angle [...] Frank, can we leave the limb out of this and replace it by the moon's center or is it essential to your problem? In other words, I just want to confirm that you are not thinking of using differential parallax (augmentation or such), particularly as you are saying the moon is high up. Herbert
