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Message 927834 - Posted: 21 Aug 2009, 22:15:50 UTC

Misfit asked a question here that got me thinking. How does the beam width of Arecibo and the pixilation of the sky compare with the parallax of some of the close by stars? Are there stars that are close enough that in the Earth's journey around the sun they are in more than one pixel?

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