Message from @RogueReflector

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2019-10-15 03:00:45 UTC  

Moons distance

2019-10-15 03:01:30 UTC  

Are they using math with s sphere or flat earth when they do that

2019-10-15 03:01:51 UTC  

The measured distance between the locations

2019-10-15 03:01:56 UTC  

That's what's used

2019-10-15 03:02:24 UTC  

The curve doesn’t come into play in the math ok

2019-10-15 03:03:09 UTC  

Wait a sec

2019-10-15 03:03:23 UTC  

The sun and moon are same apparent size

2019-10-15 03:04:11 UTC  

I used to watch Bill Nye every day as a teenager. Looking at him now though, sometimes I wish I never wasted my time.

2019-10-15 03:04:41 UTC  

We need to back this up a little rogue please

2019-10-15 03:04:52 UTC  

Sun and moon are same apparent size

2019-10-15 03:06:19 UTC  

Are they?

2019-10-15 03:06:32 UTC  

Because we have total solar eclipse and partial solar eclipses

2019-10-15 03:06:34 UTC  

@jeremy Some people would argue that the sun and moon being the same size is proof that God intelligently made the heavens and the earth. Some people would argue that it's evidence that an exceedingly more superior alien race artificially placed the earth and the moon into their orbit positions.

2019-10-15 03:06:41 UTC  

Seems the moon changes size a bit

2019-10-15 03:06:52 UTC  

Turns out it changes by 14%

2019-10-15 03:07:02 UTC  

Are u saying the sun and moon aren’t the same apparent size

2019-10-15 03:07:11 UTC  

Close to the same size

2019-10-15 03:07:16 UTC  

It not exactly

2019-10-15 03:07:37 UTC  

Within about 7%

2019-10-15 03:07:38 UTC  

I think that's because the moons orbit is elliptical right?

2019-10-15 03:07:42 UTC  

Yep

2019-10-15 03:07:49 UTC  

sometimes it's farther and sometimes it's closer

2019-10-15 03:07:53 UTC  

And inclined

2019-10-15 03:07:55 UTC  

So we agree the sun and moon have the same apparent size

2019-10-15 03:07:56 UTC  

not by a lot

2019-10-15 03:07:59 UTC  

?

2019-10-15 03:07:59 UTC  

So take the cosine of that

2019-10-15 03:08:17 UTC  

@jeremy they're close but not quite the same

2019-10-15 03:08:18 UTC  

on average, the sun and moon have the same size, no?

2019-10-15 03:08:22 UTC  

Ok stop

2019-10-15 03:08:35 UTC  

Again about 7% . If you call that the same ok, but I don't

2019-10-15 03:08:45 UTC  

We are gonna take our measurement of the sun and moon during a solar eclipse

2019-10-15 03:09:07 UTC  

Right they almost perfectly match at that point in time ?

2019-10-15 03:09:21 UTC  

is the moon slightly bigger in apparent size?

2019-10-15 03:09:48 UTC  

You can't have a total solar eclipse unless the moon's apparent size is equal or greater than the sun, right?

2019-10-15 03:09:52 UTC  

They are extremely close can we go with that ?

2019-10-15 03:10:01 UTC  

Yes

2019-10-15 03:10:06 UTC  

Within 7%

2019-10-15 03:10:20 UTC  

is that 7% area or 7% diameter?

2019-10-15 03:10:21 UTC  

Ok so we need to go back to where u said the angle change was too small for the sun

2019-10-15 03:10:28 UTC  

Well could be up to 14% diff really