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Stereo Jupiter near Opposition

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APOD: 2023 November 24 - Stereo Jupiter near Opposition

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And to think all this time I thought there was only one of them.
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A 15 minute baseline is about 415 km, about 16 million inches, so say the equivalent eye spacing of a human enlarged ~6-8 million times. Jupiter at opposition is at 600 million km says Wolfram alpha, so this is like seeing a 25 km sphere 100 km away with normal depth perception. Not bad!
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