
Does this shadow look like 70 miles to you?
Well NASA says it is suppose to be!
And at the same time it says this is a real photo.
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The shadow you see there crossing Africa is the darker portion of the penumbra which is much larger, only the resolution here doesn't give the outer fringes of it, which extend to the tip of southern Africa and into Europe. At the center of the penumbra is the umbra or total darkness, if it is a total solar eclipse. An annular eclipse doesn't have the umbra shadow in the center because the tip of it falls short of the earth's surface.
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All this is explained in previous posts, which you have apparently ignored.
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The "70 miles" does not refer to the penumbra. It is the total width of the dark, central umbra shadow, which is in the center of the penumbra. If that were visible in the image you posted above, it would appear as a black dot in the middle. The image is too large to show that, since it would be perhaps a dozen or so pixels, easily lost in the shadows of other features in a photo this large.
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I saw the moon this morning giving a very interesting appearance, as the sun was already shining in the eastern sky while the moon was setting in the west. It is now in the waning gibbous phase, just after the full moon phase of Monday.
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The illuminated side of the moon was angled upwards at what appeared to be where the sun ought to be at high noon, at first glance. But it's not always this startling in its appearance at this phase, since the orbit of the moon is usually closer to where the sun crosses the sky. Being on its way to crossing paths with the sun, the moon appears to lean back and look up (so to speak) toward the sun, which is at tremendously greater distance from earth than the moon is.
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This month, the moon is ascending from a very low path in the sky, which was visible at the previous new moon, when it seemed rather unlikely that the very next new moon would be at the same place as the sun (this is going to happen on August 21st, for all to see).
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So the moon now is halfway to its path that it will achieve in just 11 days from now. The moon is rising and setting a good deal south of where the sun is rising and setting. But its path is very quickly advancing northward, while the sun's path is now moving southward (being after the summer solstice). On the 21st, it will rise and set right about the same place where the sun rises and sets, only rising a few minutes prior to the sun, and setting a few minutes after the sun. You can see these times on the almanac website for Aug. 21st.:
Dawn Rises SetsSun 4:50 A.M. 6:19 A.M. 7:31 P.M.Moon 6:09 A.M. 7:44 P.M..
So the sun will rise 10 minutes after the moon rises, and the sun will set 13 minutes after the moon sets on the day of the total solar eclipse.
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And what should be most elucidating for those who want to know the truth (which apparently excludes dogmatic flat-earthers!) this will be the case for everyone in the continental USA, Canada, and Latin America, within a few seconds.
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Because if the junk theory of flat-earthism were correct, this would not be the case.
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