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Re: What is the Longest Lunar Possible?
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2013 Jan 21, 20:48 +0000
The problem with angles ~180 degrees is that the measured angle would become extremely sensitive to parallax errors in the measuring instrument.
Geoffrey
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2013 Jan 21, 20:48 +0000
Brad, you wrote:
"Is there a place on earth where we could observe a lunar distance of ~180 degrees? Perhaps in the polar regions, where the sun never sets but skims the horizon and the full moon simultaneously visible to the observer?"
The problem with angles ~180 degrees is that the measured angle would become extremely sensitive to parallax errors in the measuring instrument.
Geoffrey