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It's too big to be a space station.

Oh sorry I thought this was the movie quotes thread for a second..

Then how does it stay up there like that? When I see an aircraft, I assume there's a driver.

Originally Posted by cmind

This is clearly wrong... our naked eyes get better resolution than that! 5*10^15 m is about 0.5 lightyears. At 600 ly distance, this would correspond to an angular diameter of about 0.048 degrees, or about 2.9' (arcminutes). Wikipedia lists the average nighttime human eye resolution as 3', but in the daytime that rises to 2' for 20/20 vision, and 1.2' for the best human. So your calculation got wonky somewhere. I'll attempt it:

The moon is ~3.97x10^8 m away. 1 m at that distance corresponds to an angular resolution of arctan(1/3.97e8) = 2.51e-9 degrees. This is about a million times sharper than the eye.

At 600 ly, this would give 1.51e-6 ly, or about 1.4e7 km (14,000,000 km). This is similar to the orbital radius of mercury (same order of magnitude, anyway).

5*10^15 m was not metres, it was km. I stil haven't gotten around to reading about arc measurements, so I don't really understand your post. But thanks for
correcting it anyway.