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    Stargazing Solar Eclipse - Are we just lucky?

    well i used almost perfect quite loosely. Even with the orbital variance, I find it quite amazing that we have this system in a fine window where these total solar eclipses with full veiwable coronas are possible. Or maybe the window isn't as 'fine' as I think... I just wondered if for some...
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    Stargazing Solar Eclipse - Are we just lucky?

    Looking at the earth-moon-sun system, it just so happens that: . The sun is ~400 times the size of our moon . Our moon is ~400 times further away from the sun than from the earth The sun and moon look ~ the same size from Earth and hence during alignment, allows the almost perfect...
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