Interesting.  How close do you think the sun is, or may be?

It really wasn't overlooked because there is varying thought in the sun's distance and exactness is not possible for most flat earthers who try to avoid insisting on what they don't know. While I personally do not know the distance to the sun, it is a common thought for fe people, based on geometry, that the sun is approximately 3000 miles away as shown in the meme at the beginning of this thread. That the sun is small and relatively close to earth is a certainty, and the point here, because what modern science says is impossible, that earth is a sphere orbiting a 93,000,000 mile away sun.

Beginning with Aristarchus of Samos(310-230 B.C., approximately) came up with a clever method of finding the moon’s distance, by careful observation of a lunar eclipse, which happens when the earth shields the moon from the sun’s light.

To better visualize a lunar eclipse, just imagine holding up a quarter (diameter one inch approximately) at the distance where it just blocks out the sun’s rays from one eye. Of course you shouldn’t try this---you’ll damage your eye! You can try it with the full moon, which happens to be the same apparent size in the sky as the sun. It turns out that the right distance is about nine feet away, or 108 inches. If the quarter is further away than that, it is not big enough to block out all the sunlight. If it is closer than 108 inches, it will totally block the sunlight from some small circular area, which gradually increases in size moving towards the quarter. Thus the part of space where the sunlight is totally blocked is conical, like a long slowly tapering ice cream cone, with the point 108 inches behind the quarter. Of course, this is surrounded by a fuzzier area, called the “penumbra”, where the sunlight is partially blocked. The fully shaded area is called the “umbra”. (This is Latin for shadow. Umbrella means little shadow in Italian.) If you tape a quarter to the end of a thin stick, and hold it in the sun appropriately, you can see these different shadow areas.

Question: If you used a dime instead of a quarter, how far from your eye would you have to hold it to just block the full moonlight from that eye? How do the different distances relate to the relative sizes of the dime and the quarter? Draw a diagram showing the two conical shadows.

Now imagine you’re out in space, some distance from the earth, looking at the earth’s shadow. (Of course, you could only really see it if you shot out a cloud of tiny particles and watched which of them glistened in the sunlight, and which were in the dark.) Clearly, the earth’s shadow must be conical, just like that from the quarter. And it must also be similar to the quarter’s in the technical sense---it must be 108 earth diameters long! That is because the point of the cone is the furthest point at which the earth can block all the sunlight, and the ratio of that distance to the diameter is determined by the angular size of the sun being blocked. This means the cone is 108 earth diameters long, the far point 864,000 miles from earth.



1. Now, if you use the same logic for measuring the distance of the Moon's shadow (during Solar eclipses), then we reckon like this:

3475 km  (diameter of the Moon) * 108 =375 300 km (maximum distance for seeing Moon's shadow)

405 696 (apogee-distance) - 21 296 = 384 400
363 104 (perigee-distance) - 21 296 = 384 400

384 400 = alleged average distance to the Moon

384 400 > 375 300

The question: If the average distance to the Moon is a larger number than the maximum distance for seeing Moon's shadow, how can we see the Moon's shadow, at all?


2. Perigee/Apogee vs Perihelion/Aphelion :

A) 405 696 (apogee-distance) - 363 104 (perigee-distance) = 42 592 km

152 097 700 (aphelion-distance) - 147 098 070 (perihelion-distance) = 4 999 630 km

4 999 630 - 42 592 = 117,38





B)
 
    33' 30'' (angular diameter of the Moon at Perigee) - 29' 26'' (angular diameter of the Moon at Apogee) = 4,04

    32' 42'' (angular diameter of the Sun at Perihelion) - 31' 36'' (angular diameter of the Sun at Aphelion) = 1,06

The question: Even though the difference between distances Aphelion-Perihelion is117,38 times greater than the difference between distances Apogee-Perigee, the difference between angular diameters of the Sun is 4 times smaller than the difference between angular diameters of the Moon! HOW COME?

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You took the bait! Notice I didn't provide a source? Thought it would be fun to just go over to one of your beloved sites, flatearth society, and do some cut and pasting... heehee

P.S. I noticed over there in the comment sections, there's some rather bright posters who give you flat-headers a run for your money. Wish I had more time, it's rather entertaining.

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You took the bait! Notice I didn't provide a source? Thought it would be fun to just go over to one of your beloved sites, flatearth society, and do some cut and pasting... heehee

P.S. I noticed over there in the comment sections, there's some rather bright posters who give you flat-headers a run for your money. Wish I had more time, it's rather entertaining.

What do you base this supposed finding on?  Present the data.