On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote:

> When you are talking about an object that is only 47 arc seconds wide
> (at it's closest directly overhead) we would appear to be talking
> about an 8 pixel wide image.

(47 arcsec)*(0.500 m)/((5.48e-6m)*(206265 arcsec/radians)) = 20.7 pixels

(Where 5.48 microns = K-x pixel pitch)

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