•5. If you were an
astronomer in the Alpha Centauri
system (assume 4.2 light years from Earth) looking toward the solar system, what would be the maximum angular separation between Jupiter and the sun you could ever see? (Hint: 1 ly equals 63,000 AU; you can look up the orbital radius of Juipter in Appendix
A).
a. Angular
diam. = 206265 arcsec x 5.2AU
– 4.3 l-y x 63,000 AU/l-y
–Ang. Diameter = 4 arcsec
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