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Re: How far the Moon? How far the Bear?
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Nov 10, 08:56 -0800
From: David Pike
Date: 2026 Nov 10, 08:56 -0800
Frank
There was I fiddling around trying to fit Moon diameters into the height of the Moon. I completely overlooked the possibility of fitting them into the length of the aircraft as Diego Melas did. If I had used that method, I’d have probably used distance of camera from aircraft = ½ aircraft length/tan ½ (number of Moon diameters fitting into aircraft lengthx33’/60).
I did return to my own diagram and assumed the distance of the camera from the Bear was your figure of 210M. This put the F22 136M away from the camera and 74M away from the Bear, 6M different from your figures.
However, what time of which day did you decide the photograph was taken?
