Message from @jeremy
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Good luck with this dude
its an opinion the stars are light years away
its not fact
Apparently his opinions is more important than proven facts.
they will tell u its a fact but its not
Apparently so
what a proven fact merric
Is your opinion that it's not possible to are 300 light years away based on facts?
well the distance to polaris is not a fact
if u think it is a fact then thats on you
i dont think we can see 300 light years because of perspective
People found its distance from earth using advanced trigonometry
right
And "because of perspective" doesn't make any sense
do u know what happens if u do a trig problem to find the distance of the sun
You find the distance to the sun
That's what happens
well the farther out we see the more condensed it is eventually things so far away are condensed into a space that is too small to see anything through
That's why we use telescopes
ok ur about to do a trig problem u got 2 people on earth and the angle to the sun right
Not necessarily, since the earth surface is rounded, which would create an imperfect triangle
But close
they factor int he curvature of earth for the trig problem i know
so 2 people on earth can calculate the distance to the sun right through the trig probelm ?
Yeah sure
and do u think the trig problem to find the distance to the moon uses different numbers
mic drop
Sorry what
Anyway I have a source which explains this in better depth than I can
I would advise reading it
I know there's better ones out there with more detail but I'll have to look later
You can essentially calculate distances using angle-side equations and ratios
The trig problem 2 people use to find the distance to the sun and the trig problem 2 people use to find the distance to the moon use the same number
Same number of what?
Same numbers for the distance to the sun and moon
Nah they dont
That would mean that the moon is the same distance from the earth as the sun is
Yeah they do u should learn how it works
Sun and moon are same apparent size in the sky