Multipoint observations?

From: John A. Dormer 2 (jad@texas.net)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 04:36:55 UTC

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    Scott Campbell and I both live in Texas, and in an unlikely
    physical arrangement. I'm 183km to the north of him and less than 100
    meters west of his site. Is there any use for this arrangement for
    optical observation?
    
    I know for some types of radio work it'd be useful, as a very large
    synthetic aperture, but I don't know an inexpensive way to do that sort
    of thing at the moment.
    
    	John
    
    Scott and Becky Campbell wrote:
    | Hi John,
    |
    | You have made an interesting observation.  I do have some room to move
    | west but would be hemmed in a little by trees.  I can't think of any
    | practical use for this coincidence though.  Ted might have an idea.
    |
    | Scott
    |
    |> I just noticed that I'm only about a hundred meters west of you, and
    |> 183km north. I live approximately at 30.145167N 97.878833W. Think
    |> there's any use in taking advantage of this? I've got about 18m of
    |> property to the east of the position I use, so if you have any to the
    |> west we could be on the same line of longitude when making simultaneous
    |> observations of something.
    |>
    |> Target latitude: 28.4861
    |> Target longitude: -97.8194
    |> Target elevation above ellipsoid (m): 107
    |> ==========================================
    |> ~        position latitude:    30.1452 deg.
    |> ~        position longitude:   -97.8788 deg.
    |> ~        position altitude:    220m
    |> ~        position rlat:        0.526132 radians
    |> ~        position rlon:        4.57488 radians
    |>
    |> ~        position x: -756726 y: -5.46827e+06 z: 3.18441e+06
    |> ~        position: geo alt: 6.373e+06m
    |> ~        position forward azimuth:     178.187 deg. (3.10995 radians)
    |> ~        position back azimuth:     358.187 deg. (6.25155 radians)
    |> ~        position geodesic range: 183983m
    |> ~        position elevation:   -0.718441 deg. (-0.0125392 radians)
    |> ~        position slant range: 183982m
    |>
    |>
    |> John
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