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Re: Angular Distance Between Stars
From: Sean C
Date: 2012 Sep 15, 11:33 -0700
From: Sean C
Date: 2012 Sep 15, 11:33 -0700
Quote:
"If you use a standard planetarium software app like Stellarium, you can set it for some location and time and read out the altitudes either true or refracted and then enter them into any great circle distance calculator."
-FER
Stellarium now has an angle measurement tool as well so you can measure the distance directly. But it's not very precise.
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