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Old November 2nd 14, 05:04 PM posted to sci.astro.research
Eric Flesch
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Default A Laboratory Experiment for Astronomers ("Look-Back")

On Fri, 31 Oct 14, jacob navia wrote:
After the moon passes, if the speed of the quasars photons is c/2 we
should start seeing the quasar a whooping 0.5 seconds later as the
nearby star isn't it?


True, but those annoying ridges and craters on the moon's profile
would be hard to calculate in. Nice idea, though. Maybe would work
with Neptune.