Lunar Parallax
The stereo effect is still fairly subtle, despite a 960 mile baseline (Kansas - Maryland). Given the known baseline, and measuring the parallactic shift in these image, the distance to the Moon can be derived with about 3% accuracy.
(The brightest background star is Antares.)
Reformatted old pictures from 2006/08/05 03:00 UT.
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Lunar Parallax
The stereo effect is still fairly subtle, despite a 960 mile baseline (Kansas - Maryland). Given the known baseline, and measuring the parallactic shift in these image, the distance to the Moon can be derived with about 3% accuracy.
(The brightest background star is Antares.)
Reformatted old pictures from 2006/08/05 03:00 UT.
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Uploaded on October 28, 2018