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To: LeGrande; Fichori; mrjesse

Hmm, I’m not sure if my previous post is correct.

I can’t come up with the .35” asnwer that is supposedly correct. Oh, well.


1,996 posted on 10/05/2008 10:30:56 AM PDT by TrevorSnowsrap
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To: TrevorSnowsrap
“Hmm, I’m not sure if my previous post is correct.

I can’t come up with the .35” asnwer that is supposedly correct. Oh, well.”
Put this into google:
(calculates Diurnal aberration)
atan(463.8 / 299792485 ) * (180 / pi) degrees in arcseconds
463.8 is the surface speed of the Earth at the equator in meters per second.(changes with the latitude of the observer)

299792485 is the speed of light in meters per second.

The 180/pi is to convert radians into degrees.


The animation is not to scale, but the math is.
(This only accounts for Diurnal aberration)

1,997 posted on 10/05/2008 11:01:54 AM PDT by Fichori (ironic: adj. 1 Characterized by or constituting irony. 2 Obamy getting beat up by a girl.)
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