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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: How to tell distance of Stars
Message-ID: <17660161@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 6 May 91 17:47:10 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>     Uh, not trying to be picky, but you have the Doppler relation bass-
>backwards. Things whose light is blue-shifted are moving *towards* us; the
>light from things which are moving away is red-shifted. Around about 1920


OOOOOOOOPS!!!!!!!  Absolutely correct (boy, is my face red; I know it doesn't
show up well via notes, but trust me, it's red)!



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