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How do people of the opposite side see the Moon and the Sun?
At the time depicted, it is close to a astronomical new moon, and night-time in Tehran. So at that time you can't see the sun nor the moon in Tehran
For people on the other side of the world (i.e. ...
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How do people of the opposite side see the Moon and the Sun?
If the sky map is accurate, it will by definition look like the map (otherwise the map isn't accurate). Your position on earth changes very little about the positions of celestial bodies relative to ...
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Can Earth host another natural satellite than the Moon?
In a sense, the Earth-Moon system does host additional satellites in the form of the Kordylewski dust clouds. These clouds in effect simultaneously orbit the Earth and Moon at the L4 and L5 Lagrange ...
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Sun or moon, finding the date and time of crossing a specific longitude
In skyfield, to find the times when something happens, you build a function that takes a Time object, outputs an integer value, ...
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Sun or moon, finding the date and time of crossing a specific longitude
You had the right idea with solcross and mooncross from swisseph.
The functions ...
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Why is the Moon's volume so small compared to the Earth's?
Smh. Get something to draw with. Draw a circle. Draw 3 more the same size in a line. Each new circle should be touching the previous one. Now draw a big circle around the first four with the left most ...
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