Loose Leaf For Explorations: Introduction To Astronomy
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Author: Thomas T Arny, Stephen E Schneider Professor
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Can the unaided human eye resolve a crater on the Moon whose angular diameter is 2 arc minutes (= 120 arc seconds)? (Take the diameter of the pupil of the eye to be about 5 millimeters and the
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