> "Since the Roadster is still fairly close to us, parallax is significant, meaning, different locations on Earth will see Starman at slightly different coordinates," Andreo said. "I quickly recalculate, get the new coordinates, go to my images, and thanks to the wide field captured by my telescopes... boom! There it was! Impossible to miss! It had been right there all along; I just never noticed!"
By symmetry, right now from Starman's perspective the Earth appears as large as [we see] the Moon.
Thank you! This is the first I've heard either way.
I do hope you can overcome the curse of knowledge[1] to see how the original post was ambiguous without that information. I simply had to know a-posteriori that the software worked like that (I didn't, the manual[2] offered no clues, and I hadn't yet re-done the calculation).
>However even if the default wasn't center of the Earth, that couldn't alter the apparent size of the Earth from the perspective of the Roadster.
I know the software doesn't rearrange the sky, but my hope is that you can understand how I arrived at that particular off-by-a-factor-of-two error[3] (oddly, by assuming less than I should have).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge