I Thought About Making Travel Plans for the Eclipse—Then I Had a Realization
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A partial eclipse won’t be the same experience, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it has to be worse.
  • MaxHardwood@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Light is a constant and there isn’t gravitational lensing between the Earth and Sun. Any light from the Sun always reaches us at the same speed of roughly 8 minutes

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      3 months ago

      That’s what I said (minus a typo).

      (to nitpick however… there is some effect on the timing depending on how the planets align… wonder how a Moon right on its path impacted it)