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- Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: My math is wrong (APOD 19 Oct 2006)
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My math is wrong (APOD 19 Oct 2006)
Hi, Can someone who understands basic trig help me please? For kicks, I thought I'd try to calculate the sizes of the comet & galaxy in APOD 10/19/06 based on apparent diameters and distances. But I'm clearly doing someting wrong: I thought the tangent of half the apparent diameter (angle) would...