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Old 04-26-2016, 09:43 AM   #1
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So very many stars. I know there are a lot of stars. I've basically always known there are a lot of stars. But would you look at that? So many stars.
And that's only 3 degrees, so times 120, for just the stars we can see.
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Old 04-26-2016, 09:09 PM   #2
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And that's only 3 degrees, so times 120, for just the stars we can see.
120 would only cover a narrow strip circling around the sky; covering the full sphere would be about 4580 of these little 3x3 patches.
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