Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!jwl From: jwl@ucbvax.ARPA (James Wilbur Lewis) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: June 11 Where the Stars Don't Twinkle Message-ID: <8487@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 18:21:46 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8487 Posted: Tue Jun 25 18:21:46 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 07:38:42 EDT References: <224@utastro.UUCP> <71@denelvx.UUCP> Reply-To: jwl@ucbvax.UUCP (James Wilbur Lewis) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 8 Stars twinkle because they are, for all practical purposes, point sources. Planets, since they are much closer to Earth, have visible disks. Since the light you see from a planet comes from a larger area, it is less affected by the atmospheric turbulence that makes the stars twinkle. -- Jim Lewis U.C. Berkeley ...!ucbvax!jwl