Pinpointing totality
May 21, 2020
1 minute
Astronomers can pinpoint the time and location of an eclipse to the millisecond. “What you need is to have an accurate. That means knowing where all three celestial bodies are in three dimensions. “Then you can predict where the Moon shadow is, since it’s always pointing away from the Sun.”
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