I was recently stargazing with a friend on the phone. He was suprised that I couldn't see all the shooting stars that he was seeing. We were both looking to the North, but he's in San Francisco and I'm in Phoenix. How close do two people have to be to share enough of the sky to share shooting stars?
You are about 650 miles from one another.
When you look at the sky your visual range is in the shape of a cone, that meens that you couldn't see what your friend saw 650 miles to the north-west and he could'nt see the same range to the south-east .
That is not a significant distance, so you should have saw almost everything your frienf saw.. Maybe you had different visual condition as light and cloudiness.
The rule is - the distant you are from one another, this is the the range in the sky you would'n be able to see.
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