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Old February 19th 08, 05:59 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Saul Levy Saul Levy is offline
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Default What if? (on man made eclipses)

You keep bringing this topic up, BEERTbrain! An interferometer works
better.

Saul Levy


On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:37:54 -0500, (G=EMC^2
Glazier) wrote:

What if we could make an eclipse on stars that are close to us? I'm
thinking if we could block the Sun's disk we might be able to detect the
reflected light of the planets making up its solar system. Could a
coronagraph be used for close stars? Bert