Astro-Porn of the Day: I think this would work....

[mckitterick]

Click the image to see the xkcd comic website.

...and I want to try.

Chris

Comments

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

In the comments on the LJ feed, people point out that's how we establish parallax to nearby stars.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's why I think this would work! Using a couple of web-cams and a smart-phone is a clever innovation.

(Though it would require more than a couple hundred feet for decent parallax.)