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Drawing a diagram to understand why eclipses dont happen every month
The moon’s orbital plane is inclined relative to the earth’s by something like five degrees, so eclipses only happen when the moon’s orbit intersects the line where the two planes meet. Those points are called nodes I think
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Mar 14, 2025
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@sluglandia
and how wild it is that the moon’s size and distance from the sun relative to earth can cast a perfect shadow
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@celine
a beautiful diagram i must say
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