Message from @jeremy
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So take the cosine of that
@jeremy they're close but not quite the same
on average, the sun and moon have the same size, no?
Ok stop
Again about 7% . If you call that the same ok, but I don't
We are gonna take our measurement of the sun and moon during a solar eclipse
Right they almost perfectly match at that point in time ?
is the moon slightly bigger in apparent size?
You can't have a total solar eclipse unless the moon's apparent size is equal or greater than the sun, right?
They are extremely close can we go with that ?
Yes
Within 7%
is that 7% area or 7% diameter?
Ok so we need to go back to where u said the angle change was too small for the sun
Well could be up to 14% diff really
@SunRazor ha I dunno, I think it's diameter?
@jeremy k
They are the same size almost
Right
for all practical purposes, they are the same apparent size
Be cause it's further away
Lol
We r getting the distance with the angle change I thought
The angle change is too small to measure
The angle change is giving us the distance
Ya and with a large enough distance this method is too inaccurate
It’s the same as the moon
Ya but the angle change we get when we do this on the moon is a number much large than the uncertainty in our instrument
If u did the measurement to the moon with ur angles and the sun u get the same number
No they're different
Indicating the moon is much closer
Ok let’s take this nice and slow
2 people on earth solar eclipse
Ya I think you're missing something
Hang on a sec
2 people on earth solar eclipse at totality they are gonna check the angles and come up with the same number
I don't understand what "angles" we're talking about here
@jeremy ya that makes no sense
What angle are you talking about