03-11-2015, 02:51 PM
As I have pointed out repeatedly, at the scales at which you are conducting your analysis of the photographs, you could not measure, or observe, any deviation from perfectly parallel.
Your point about the shadows of Mars and Earth in different phases of their orbits is correct. You are talking about astronomical scales of distance, and that's what you need to consider the Sun as a point source of light get a measureable convergence/divergence. On any terrestrial scale of measurement, the Suns rays are parallel.
I don't want to quibble, but your description of the eclipse is inaccurate. The moon never "passes beyond the Sun."
This particular fact also may be of interest. The Moon is roughly 1/6 the size of the Earth, and yet, the umbra, the shadow of the moon where the eclipse is total, is a tiny fraction of the total size of the Earth. The leading edge of the umbra, and the trailing edge of the umbra, do, in fact, converge as they move farther away from the Sun and the Moon. When you understand why that is the case, you will understand why your treatment of the Sun as a point source of light and photographing diverging shadows from a lightbulb is misleading to your analysis.
Your point about the shadows of Mars and Earth in different phases of their orbits is correct. You are talking about astronomical scales of distance, and that's what you need to consider the Sun as a point source of light get a measureable convergence/divergence. On any terrestrial scale of measurement, the Suns rays are parallel.
I don't want to quibble, but your description of the eclipse is inaccurate. The moon never "passes beyond the Sun."
This particular fact also may be of interest. The Moon is roughly 1/6 the size of the Earth, and yet, the umbra, the shadow of the moon where the eclipse is total, is a tiny fraction of the total size of the Earth. The leading edge of the umbra, and the trailing edge of the umbra, do, in fact, converge as they move farther away from the Sun and the Moon. When you understand why that is the case, you will understand why your treatment of the Sun as a point source of light and photographing diverging shadows from a lightbulb is misleading to your analysis.
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