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Old 22-03-2009, 07:22 PM
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How far ?

Hi Mark,

Without doing the arithmetic myself, Wikipedia provides what seems like a sensible guesstimate of 1.5 ly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezium_(astronomy)

Trig will give the answer I think assuming the four main stars all lie at the same distance from Earth, but I can't find my trig and log tables at the present time.


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Les D
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