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?

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

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

No they're different

Indicating the moon is much closer

Ok let’s take this nice and slow