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Originally Posted by glenc
The collage was very impressive.
I agree with the 20 million times calculation.
For me Uranus was on the other side of the triangular mountain peak on the moon's limb.
The result of parallax.
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Hello, Glen
Thanks for verifying the calculations; I was a little unsure of my sums, as 20,000,000 sounded a big number! I didn't realise that the parallax effect would be so pronounced over such a relatively small terrestrial distance, so that was a very interesting observation too.
Cheers
Dennis