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Re: apparent size of sun and moon
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 Mar 6, 12:57 -0500
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2013 Mar 6, 12:57 -0500
When you are standing at or within the arctic circle, your body is within 23 degrees of perpendicular to the orbital planes of the planets around the sun (the ecliptic). The light from the sun only paints the side of the moon facing it. Consequently, the horns of the moon must also be within 23 degrees of perpendicular to the ecliptic.
In the image, the horns are horizontal. This means that the sun is (considering your frame reference) down from you. But you are near perpendicular to the ecliptic and the sun IS in the ecliptic. So this cannot possibly be correct. Its at least 67 degrees away from the proper orientation.
Brad
On Mar 6, 2013 12:01 PM, "Robert Wyatt" <chupacerveza@gmail.com> wrote:
We know that during a solar eclipse the apparent sizes of the moon and the sun are very close. This might be two or more superimposed photos, but it was not a single photo. Joel Silverberg wrote: > This photograph was posted to a facebook site, and claims to be a photo of the sun and the moon, taken from the North Pole. Is this possible ? I don't see how the sun and moon could appear to be so extremely different in size. Is this a Photoshop manipulation of reality for 'artistic' effect ?
