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Gravitational lensing(or light path bending) and the apparent size of objects.
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20-February-2009, 07:43 AM
Frog march
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yeah, I suppose not really lensing, which is why I put the stuff about light being bent.
But lenses do distort what is seen, an this is what is going on, i think.
But what I want to know is, does the object(the Sun/star in this case) appear bigger?
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