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To: Creationist

I can aim a rifle, iron sights, within one arc minute. With pistol it is about 3 arc minutes. Astronomers using iron sights can do as well on stars. With precision gears and some optical aid they can measure much finer. Still, 50 to 100 parsecs is considered adequately far for that technique with telescopic magnification, and one parsec, as for Alpha Cent, is iron sights accuracy. For greater distance they like to use absolute magnitude.


46 posted on 04/06/2006 12:04:33 PM PDT by RightWhale (Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

You can shoot pretty good as can I, but we are dealing in a couple of hundred yards. When you can hit a pop can at 25 miles with iron sites give me a jingle.


51 posted on 04/06/2006 5:32:49 PM PDT by Creationist (If the earth is old show me your proof. Salvation from the judgment of your sins is free.)
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