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Re: Kepler

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	sci.physics.relativity
Subject	Re: Kepler
Date	2016-08-26 12:03 +1000
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On 26/08/2016 11:56 AM, John Gogo wrote:
> On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 8:52:33 PM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 26/08/2016 9:10 AM, Carl Susumu wrote:
>>>
>>> Astronomers are viewing a single point in space (.1 arcseconds), using the Kepler space telescope but to view a planet 4.2 light years from the earth, using the Kepler space telescopes, would require a planet with a diameter of more than ten times the diameter of our solar system.
>>>
>>
>> Stars (all of them, except the sun) have an angular size that is too
>> small to be resolved by the human eye. That doesn't prevent people from
>> seeing them.
>>
>> Sylvia
>
> Yes it does. It means that we can only see the corona, not the actual body- and this is bound to have a major measurable effect.
>

Comparatively little light comes from the corona. Most comes from the 
body of the star. Light doesn't disappear just because the eye lens is 
too small to resolve it as an image. It just gets concentrated into a 
featureless dot, which is what the owner of the eye perceives.

Sylvia.

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Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:10 -0700
  Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 16:23 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-26 04:13 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 16:28 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 17:05 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-25 17:32 -0700
  Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 11:52 +1000
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 18:56 -0700
      Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:03 +1000
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:16 -0700
          Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:21 -0700
        Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:26 -0700
          Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 12:30 +1000
            Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:34 -0700
              Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-25 19:36 -0700
                Re: Kepler Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-08-26 15:11 +1000
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:16 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 12:52 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 13:30 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 14:29 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-27 15:42 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-08-28 13:34 -0700
    Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:08 -0700
      Re: Kepler John Gogo <jfgogo22@yahoo.com> - 2016-08-29 20:10 -0700
    Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 03:50 -0700
      Re: Kepler Prokaryotic Caspase Homolog <prokaryotic.caspase.homolog@gmail.com> - 2016-08-30 06:18 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 20:01 -0700
  Re: Kepler jon.white.sm@gmail.com - 2016-08-29 21:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 11:11 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 12:34 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:14 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-30 14:28 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-08-31 09:19 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-01 10:20 -0700
  Re: Kepler numbernumber1964@gmail.com - 2016-09-02 14:44 -0700
  Re: Kepler Carl Susumu <numbernumber1212@gmail.com> - 2016-09-02 18:46 -0700

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