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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject: Re: How do you follow a star?
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 11:40:01 +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.