Abstract: This method is an EAAE rediscovery of Galileo's old 1610 Venus distance method. Sky & Telescope will describe this issue in a separate article - scheduled already for Feb/Mar 1997. If succesfull, images plus a total exercise will be published Astronomy On Line.

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Comments by OPC

General Comments: Simple and elegant proposal based on a clever idea.

Visibility: Saturn is well visible now.

Special Comments: A small pixel size would be good for the accuracy of the results.

Expected time consumption (including overhead): Nearly instantaneous.

Proposed facility: Dutch 90 cm telescope at La Silla.