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5 Sep 2024 03:23:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: SharkD
Date: 25 Nov 2009 21:09:57
Message: <4b0de375$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/24/2009 11:11 AM, Invisible wrote:
> This is what I'm interested in. Are the lights visible from this
> distance because they glow? Or would any old object be visible from such
> a distance? (Assuming it wasn't the middle of the night, obviously.)


I would guess that stars are significantly distant enough that their 
angular diameter is too tiny to be visible without the aid of the light 
they give off.


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