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oh, you're right I got confused by the mention of HST.

> 0.1 arcsec, or 6 arcmin

I'm pretty sure 0.1 arcsec isn't 6 arcmin :) it's less than 0.002 arcmin

Florin_Andrei on Dec 5, 2011 [–]

Huh. Not enough caffeine (grumble).

It's actually funny the way I made the mistake; things got flipped at a semantic level, above syntax. I guess a neuroscientist would see some significance in it, or something.

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