Another great job. "Lunatic By definition". Funny . and of course Luna Tic(ed) refers to those who are crazed by that body (and "they" seem to be ticked by all other bodies, physical and otherwise, and myopically partial to their own and their necessitatedly contrived mommies, like infants). The FEers may not be ready to leave the security of their impenetrable looping thought processing, so for now your small choir will enjoy your creative contributions to thinking without emotional boundaries.
Just for showing the principle, your calculations are spot on. Alas, even if your results were of by only one millimeter these guys would not be satisfied. Good job, thank you.
Yeah, I know it's probably futile. I'm doing this partially for personal entertainment though, just as an intellectual exercise. I'm actually making an addendum video that will include some other adjustments as well as apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion results.
I made a follow-up to this video. See: ua-cam.com/video/DLYwTUoubvk/v-deo.html Basically, I adjusted the Sun-Moon distances slightly by subtracting the Earth-Moon distances from the Earth-Sun distances. This has minimal effect, reducing my previously calculated 71 mile shadow diameter to about 65 miles. Then I considered asymmetric cases: Apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion. I should have done this originally, since the perigee-aphelion gives the greatest shadow size of 133.9 miles. I also made some new diagrams to try to better illustrate what I was talking about, and provided the formula I used along with the spreadsheet values if anyone would like to play with the math.
I'm working on an addendum video. Although I'm not taking the axial tilt into account, I'm doing the calculations for apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion. I didn't stop to realize before that these are kind of working against each other and that the perigee-aphelion is what gives the largest shadow. With this in mind, it seems like the 2017 eclipse will be a pretty average.
all hands on deck glenn. did you sign off on this. if even the research guy have to make video's now. you know there in trouble. good tech in the video but it was'nt great. keep on trucking
Another great job. "Lunatic By definition". Funny . and of course Luna Tic(ed) refers to those who are crazed by that body (and "they" seem to be ticked by all other bodies, physical and otherwise, and myopically partial to their own and their necessitatedly contrived mommies, like infants). The FEers may not be ready to leave the security of their impenetrable looping thought processing, so for now your small choir will enjoy your creative contributions to thinking without emotional boundaries.
Just for showing the principle, your calculations are spot on.
Alas, even if your results were of by only one millimeter these guys would not be satisfied.
Good job, thank you.
Yeah, I know it's probably futile. I'm doing this partially for personal entertainment though, just as an intellectual exercise. I'm actually making an addendum video that will include some other adjustments as well as apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion results.
I made a follow-up to this video. See: ua-cam.com/video/DLYwTUoubvk/v-deo.html
Basically, I adjusted the Sun-Moon distances slightly by subtracting the Earth-Moon distances from the Earth-Sun distances. This has minimal effect, reducing my previously calculated 71 mile shadow diameter to about 65 miles.
Then I considered asymmetric cases: Apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion. I should have done this originally, since the perigee-aphelion gives the greatest shadow size of 133.9 miles.
I also made some new diagrams to try to better illustrate what I was talking about, and provided the formula I used along with the spreadsheet values if anyone would like to play with the math.
excellent job. you would have to take axial tilt into account for distance from earth to the moon. your result was extremely good.
I'm working on an addendum video. Although I'm not taking the axial tilt into account, I'm doing the calculations for apogee-perihelion and perigee-aphelion. I didn't stop to realize before that these are kind of working against each other and that the perigee-aphelion is what gives the largest shadow. With this in mind, it seems like the 2017 eclipse will be a pretty average.
The Quagmire
just a thought but stellarium gives a bunch of info on sun and moon positions and distances.
try a light thats bigger than the object - you get a smaller shadow.
all hands on deck glenn.
did you sign off on this. if even the research guy have to make video's now. you know there in trouble. good tech in the video but it was'nt great.
keep on trucking