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Re: How do you follow a star?

From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups sci.physics
Subject Re: How do you follow a star?
Date 2016-12-26 11:40 +1100
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On 26/12/2016 6:20 AM, Yuri Kreaton wrote:

> what is the orbiting altitude of a geosecrynous sattilite such that it
> can guide 3 Wise Men with good telescopes (1 degree error), to with 10
> mile of a place on the earth ?

I think you've been watching too much television.

All geosynchronous satellites orbit at the same altitude. They have to. 
There's no choice in the matter. They're also all in equatorial orbits.

Sylvia.

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How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-24 16:05 -0800
  Re: How do you follow a star? moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-12-25 05:57 +0000
  Re: How do you follow a star? pnalsing@gmail.com - 2016-12-24 22:08 -0800
  Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 08:12 -0600
    Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 12:54 -0600
      Re: How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-25 10:59 -0800
        Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-25 13:20 -0600
          Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 11:40 +1100
            Re: How do you follow a star? john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-12-25 20:03 -0800
              Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 16:08 +1100
                Re: How do you follow a star? Yuri Kreaton <invlaid@invalid.com> - 2016-12-26 00:08 -0600
                Re: How do you follow a star? Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-26 23:06 +1100

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