The paths of totality of solar eclipses circumnavigate the earth on a flat earth map-- which brings some sense to the otherwise nonsensical globe earth maps of paths of totality. Here are paths of totality on the globe map....
...and here is a path of totality on a Gleason map...
Here is a pretty good presentation that compare solar eclipse paths of totality on a globe then transferred to a Gleason map.
The solar eclipse of 2017 has many anomalies as the following study presents-- including likely fake crowds and other problems too numerous to describe right now.
Here is a pretty good presentation that compare solar eclipse paths of totality on a globe then transferred to a Gleason map.
The solar eclipse of 2017 has many anomalies as the following study presents-- including likely fake crowds and other problems too numerous to describe right now.
according to eclipse shadow, the moon is ~100 times smaller in diameter than stated; so regarding what is said to be a fusion reactor in the aristrichas? region of the moon, a reactor of 1/10th mile seems more plausible than a 10mile long reaction chamber. the 100miles was a rough calculation given the data that the navy "satellite" clementine presented to us, and if one couldn't actually see this bright spot on the moon for themselves with binoculars, i would not believe the sat photo; and in any event i do not believe the supposed size as the resolution of standard telescopes is not enough to see this detail at 250k miles away.
ReplyDeleteSeeing detail I see on pair of binoculars is more than I should see if the moon were 250K mi. away... let along a telescope.
ReplyDeleteI had not considered the size of the shadow.. but you're right. They say the moon is 1/4 the size of Earth and 250K mi away... with the sun 93 million miles away. So the shadow cast by something 1/4 our size so close OUGHT to be something LIKE 100X bigger! You're quite correct. That's an excellent point. How did I not think of that before? Innumeracy?
Let's round off 93 to 100 million. And round off 250,000 to 1 million for argument's sake. So we have that 100 to 1 ratio... 100 million miles away... and 1 million miles away.... with a diameter of 1/4... Earth is said to be 25,000 mi in diameter so the moon would be 6,000 miles in diameter.
I'll try to upload a diagram but we have a scaling / shadow problem that should be easy to figure out with a drawing. They say suns' diameter is 100X Earths... 100 million miles away... Moon is 1/4 Earth's, 250,000 miles away... Shadow calculations/diagrams should be easy. Say--- landru.. you're on it!
I'll get on this. Textbooks have done it before but there has to something wrong. ... you know I recall something about a "penumbra"... where the shadow is supposed to get narrower... but that's absurd! They had to make that up to account for the fact that the shadow is pencil thin compared to what it should be.
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