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The angle at which an observer in the centre of the moon would see the apparent radius of the earth in the sky is called the parallax of the moon.
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Schmidt, J.F.J. (2020). Parallax of the Moon. In: The Moon. Historical & Cultural Astronomy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37269-9_2
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