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10 What is the angular diameter of the sun or moon in the sky?
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Roughly 1/2 degree
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Is the angular diameter of the moon is smaller than that of the sun?
The Sun is about 416 times larger than the Moon. You could place about 71,991,296 Moons inside the Sun. The Sun has a diameter of 1.392×106 km The Moon has a diameter of 3,474.2 km
What is the angular size of the Sun and the Moon in order for solar eclipses to occur?
* For a solar eclipse, there is no specific requirement about the angular sizes.* For a TOTAL solar eclipse, the angular diameter of the Moon must be larger than that of the Sun.
Why do the sun and moon appear to be the same size on a solar eclipse?
Because the sun is thousands of times as far away and just as many times bigger. This is simple geometry. As to why they have this relationship so that they appear to have the same diameter - it is just chance.
What is the relative size and distance relationships among the sun earth and moon?
The earth's diameter is 3.67 times the moon's, and 0.0092 of the sun's diameter. The distance to the sun is 391 times the distance to the moon. The moon's diameter is 0.283 of the earth's, and 0.0025 of the sun's. The distance to the earth is 0.0026 times the distance to the sun. The sun's diameter is 109 times the earth's, and 400 times the moon's diameter. On the average over a month, the earth and moon are at equal distances from the sun.
Why is the moon visible in the sky?
The Sun is very bright.
Do the sun and moon have the same angular diameter?
It is true that as seen fro the earth the sun and the moon have roughly the same angular diameter. It is for that reason that total solar eclipses are so spectacular.
What is the angular diameter of both the sun and moon?
1/2 a degree
Is the angular diameter of the moon is smaller than that of the sun?
The Sun is about 416 times larger than the Moon. You could place about 71,991,296 Moons inside the Sun. The Sun has a diameter of 1.392×106 km The Moon has a diameter of 3,474.2 km
What is the angular size of the Sun and the Moon in order for solar eclipses to occur?
* For a solar eclipse, there is no specific requirement about the angular sizes.* For a TOTAL solar eclipse, the angular diameter of the Moon must be larger than that of the Sun.
What is the angular diameter of the sun?
1/2 degrees (i think:)...this is also the same as the moon...
What is the diameter of the Sun and Moon?
the diameter of the sun is about 400 times that of the moon, and it out-masses the moon by about 27 million times, they are both approximately the same apparent size in our sky.
What are facts about sizing up the sun and the moon?
for the next hundred millenia, they are the same angular diameter, and this is the reason why we have total solar eclipses. in the distant future however, this won't be the case because the moon will get further apart from the earth and become smaller in angular diameter.
Why is the moon and sun bigger at the horizon?
They aren't. It is an optical illusion. Camera pictures show that their angular diameter doesn't change significantly.
Why do the sun and moon appear to be the same size on a solar eclipse?
Because the sun is thousands of times as far away and just as many times bigger. This is simple geometry. As to why they have this relationship so that they appear to have the same diameter - it is just chance.
How many moons can fit across the sun?
The Sun has about 400 times the diameter of the Moon.The Sun has about 400 times the diameter of the Moon.The Sun has about 400 times the diameter of the Moon.The Sun has about 400 times the diameter of the Moon.
What are the sizes of the moon and the sun?
Moon diameter: 14 158 mi sun diameter:864400 mi
How big is the Sun in comparison to the moon and earth?
The diameter of the sun is about 109 times the diameter of the earth,and about 400 times the diameter of the moon.
