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Comparison of angular diameter of the Sun, Moon and planets with the International Space Station and human visual acuity. To get a true representation of the sizes, view the image at a distance of 102.6 \begin{bmatrix}=\tfrac{1}{\tan\big(\tfrac{33.5}{60} \times \tfrac{\pi}{180}\big)}\end{bmatrix} times the width of the largest (Moon: max.) circle. For example, if this circle is 10 cm wide on your monitor, view it from 10.26 m away. Planetary angular diameters are from factsheets at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ and Sun/Moon ones are from http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/pages/faq.html .

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Short title Comparison of angular diameter of some celestial bodies
Image title Comparison of angular diameter of the Sun, Moon and planets, compiled by CMG Lee. To get a true representation of the sizes, view the image at a distance of 103 [1 / tan(33.5/60 * pi/180)] times the width of the largest (Moon: max.) circle. For example, if this circle is 10 cm wide on your monitor, view it from 10.3 m away. Planetary angular diameters are from factsheets at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ and Sun/Moon ones are from http://education.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/pages/faq.html . Moon photograph is from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Full_Moon_as_Seen_From_Denmark.jpg .

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