Message from @jeremy
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Are u saying the sun and moon aren’t the same apparent size
Close to the same size
It not exactly
Within about 7%
I think that's because the moons orbit is elliptical right?
Yep
sometimes it's farther and sometimes it's closer
And inclined
So we agree the sun and moon have the same apparent size
not by a lot
?
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?
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
How’s the angle change too small for the sun to take the measurement we do for the moon
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