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I wrote a program to calculate the parameters of an eclipse.
For the 2006 Mar 29 solar eclipse I get the magnitude 1.0260, while he http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips...Mar29-Fig2.GIF there is 1.0515. In that site http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclips.../SEcatkey.html it is said that: "Eclipse magnitude is the fraction of the Sun's diameter obscured by the Moon." which is clearly wrong because with that definition the maximum magnitude would be 1. In my program I used the formula: G= (Sl + Ss - d) / 2 / Ss where Sl and Ss are the Moon and Sun semidiameters and d is the distance between the center of the Sun and of the Moon. With my prog I get the NASA's magnitude when I do Sl/Ss which is 1,0521. Is there any standard definition for the magnitude? Thanks Cristiano |
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