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- Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:19 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula (2013 Aug 22)
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Re: APOD: IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula (2013 Aug 22)
Touché. Thanks for the reply.
- Thu Aug 22, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula (2013 Aug 22)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2564
Re: APOD: IC 5067 in the Pelican Nebula (2013 Aug 22)
I'm struggling with my almost forgotten high school math and so I could well be wrong but I seem to remember that the size of an object is equal to the sine of the angle that it subtends multiplied by its distance. If I'm right then I wonder about the quoted size of “about 10 light years” for the “p...