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@ Tameteora, Cmglee, and Jordgette: This is unclear:
On first reading, I took it to refer to "the centers of the eclipsed body and the eclipsing body", exactly as written: i.e., the center of the Sun and the center of the Moon, respectively. That line runs straight from the Sun to the Moon and, in a total eclipse, to some point on the surface of the Earth, and the length of it that it within the body of the Sun tells us nothing about the eclipse.
In fact, it is intended to refer to the centers of their disks as seen from Earth (where on Earth?) during the eclipse (when?), as a plane geometrical figure drawn on the sky.
I'm pretty sure I have that right, but I am no astronomer and will leave the correction to someone who is.
Thnidu ( talk) 05:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
It would be useful to give the maximums and the minimums, with examples of each, so that readers can understand how this variable affects the width of the path of totality and the length of totality in minutes and seconds. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)
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@ Tameteora, Cmglee, and Jordgette: This is unclear:
On first reading, I took it to refer to "the centers of the eclipsed body and the eclipsing body", exactly as written: i.e., the center of the Sun and the center of the Moon, respectively. That line runs straight from the Sun to the Moon and, in a total eclipse, to some point on the surface of the Earth, and the length of it that it within the body of the Sun tells us nothing about the eclipse.
In fact, it is intended to refer to the centers of their disks as seen from Earth (where on Earth?) during the eclipse (when?), as a plane geometrical figure drawn on the sky.
I'm pretty sure I have that right, but I am no astronomer and will leave the correction to someone who is.
Thnidu ( talk) 05:35, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
It would be useful to give the maximums and the minimums, with examples of each, so that readers can understand how this variable affects the width of the path of totality and the length of totality in minutes and seconds. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 05:04, 24 August 2017 (UTC)