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Old September 15th 03, 03:29 PM
Jan C. Vorbrüggen
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Default Twinkle, twinkle little star...

The twinkling is caused by turbulence of the atmosphere, caused by temperature
and compositional differences. So the answer would be
"it depends on the details". The difference in "seeing" on Earth can
be quite large...

Jan
 




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