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xboxdevil

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  1. You might not fancy it but If you ever had an open viewing session I'm sure that there would be a lot of interest!

    Congrats, it looks like a fantastically engineered bit of kit, it's almost a shame that it lives under the poor UK skies.

  2. Ok so instead of saying something is at 9pm position to the moon it would be right to say that it is 270 arc minutes from the moon?

    I dont think i have that right.

    ???

    That's not my understanding!

    An arc minutes is a unit of angular measurement, equal to 1/60 of a degree, but don't let that put you off - the moon is approx. 1/2 a degree wide, so if 1 degree is 60 arc minutes then the moon is 30 arc minutes across (or 1800 arc seconds).

    So it's not so much the position of things but the relative width of them as we can see them.

    Hope this makes sense!

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