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Re: Big fat sunspot and a solar eclipse
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Oct 23, 19:51 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2014 Oct 23, 19:51 -0700
Greg:
One thing to consider: observations in mid-eclipse were not really "far limb" lunars since those are measured to the far limb of the Moon. How would you correct them? Double-check me, but I think you'll find that if you add 2·(SDmoon - SDsun) to the measured "internal" distance from the Moon's dark edge to the far limb of the Sun, then that will turn it into a standard "far limb" lunar observation --which should be measured from the Sun's limb to the far limb of the Moon. Or maybe you already did that.
-FER
