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The moon subtends an angle from earth of approximately 1/2 degree. Stars twice as far apart as the diameter of a full moon would therefore be 1 degree apart. Your fist at arm's length subtends approximately 10 degrees. So two stars three fists apart would be about 30 degrees.

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