#how far away is the moon

[oobbbear]

An “what if there’s a pizzaplex location in China” au

They're an Eclipse, but you can just call them Wu Dan

They are a theater bot from the Shanghai pizzaplex, they play the Wu Dan role (female warrior/fighter role) in Traditional Chinese opera. They can sing they can dance, they perform with a spear, and they do Bian Lian mask trick.

Most time they stay as Eclipse but if needed they can switch between Sun and Moon on command. As the picture shows, the red mask is Sun, the Blue mask is moon, the split face is when both are up but not in sync, they can’t stay like that for long it burns their battery, and the white face is Eclipse

Sun is more hot headed and extroverted, Moon is more ‘hohoho I’m evil’ and introverted, when split face, they’re mostly having a fight and they use their traits against each other, when Eclipse, their traits are combined creating an neutralized version of themselves

#will there be more? #maybe #I adore this idea #but at the same time every time I draw them I hands cry for mercy #I’m not one to draw complicated designs and it shows #my art #oc #dcaverse #I’m not tagging sun moon individually because how far away their design is #if I just say hey new oc and y’all are gonna believe me #Wu Dan #Ah also shout out to gitm and the server #opened me to possibility of plex locations all over the world

[lavenoon]

He finds himself reaching for a different kind of flame, nowadays

hey hey @naffeclipse, would you like some bloodstain fool in this trying time?

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic

also bonus Eclipse-less version under the cut

#post let luce #dcamv #bloodstain fool #my art #ough i had so much fun with this one #playing with the colors of the buildings #vigilante as a shooting star reaching higher and higher #the high rise as their stepping stone and showing how far they've climbed already #sun and moon as steadying presences #intertwined but distinct; a pair #and Eclipse!! he faces towards them! not away! #he still stands in blood #and fire and smoke are still a part of him #but he wants something else #he reaches higher; rather than sinking further down #okay yes analysis moment over hfjdks I just. hope its not too obscure oop

[messier51]

Regarding your post about solar eclipses on other planets - I know other planets get solar eclipses, too, but do any other planets besides earth get total solar eclipses?

Yep! I mean, that's why I worded that post specifically that way, and included links to the wikipedia articles about solar eclipses on the gas giant planets in our solar system.

So, a total solar eclipse happens on earth because the angular size of the moon as seen from the surface of the earth is (usually) larger than the angular size of the sun, right? (We see an annular eclipse when the moon's angular size is a little smaller than the sun's, depending on the relative distances of each since orbits are elliptical and those aren't constant.)

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are all quite a bit farther from the sun, so the angular size of the sun is much smaller, and have fairly large moons. All of Jupiter's galilean moons are large enough and close enough to the planet that they're large enough to fully occult (cover) the sun and therefore produce total eclipses.

Similarly on Saturn:

Seven of Saturn's satellites – Janus, Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Rhea, Dione and Titan – are large enough and near enough to eclipse or occult the Sun, or in other words to cast an umbra on Saturn. At this distance, the sun covers only about 3 arcminutes in the sky of Saturn. In comparison, the seven major moons of Saturn have angular diameters of 5–10' (Mimas), 5–9' (Enceladus), 10–15' (Tethys), 10–12' (Dione), 8–11' (Rhea), 14–15' (Titan), and 1–2' (Iapetus). Iapetus is Saturn's third largest moon, but is too far away to completely eclipse the Sun. Janus, a very close moon to Saturn, has an angular diameter of about 7', meaning that it can fully cover the Sun.

and Uranus:

Twelve satellites of Uranus—Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Portia, Rosalind, Belinda, Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon—are large enough and near enough to eclipse the Sun.

and Neptune:

All of Neptune's inner moons and Triton can eclipse the Sun as seen from Neptune. All other satellites of Neptune are too small and/or too distant to produce an umbra. From this distance, the Sun's angular diameter is reduced to one and a quarter arcminutes across. Here are the angular diameters of the moons that are large enough to fully eclipse the Sun: Naiad, 7–13'; Thalassa, 8–14'; Despina, 14–22'; Galatea, 13–18'; Larissa, 10–14'; Proteus, 13–16'; Triton, 26–28'.

and also Pluto, really:

Charon has an angular diameter of 4 degrees of arc as seen from the surface of Pluto; the Sun appears much smaller, only 39 to 65 arcseconds. By comparison, the Moon as viewed from Earth has an angular diameter of only 31 minutes of arc, or just over half a degree of arc. Therefore, Charon would appear to have eight times the diameter, or 25 times the area of the Moon; this is due to Charon's proximity to Pluto rather than size, as despite having just over one-third of a Lunar radius, Earth's Moon is 20 times more distant from Earth's surface as Charon is from Pluto's. This proximity further ensures that a large proportion of Pluto's surface can experience an eclipse. Because Pluto always presents the same face towards Charon due to tidal locking, only the Charon-facing hemisphere experiences solar eclipses by Charon.

So all of these planets (modulo the lack of surfaces/living beings, but like, that's also pretty special to Earth completely separately from eclipses) experience the nighttime-like darkness caused by the umbra (shadow) of the eclipse (occultation).

Now, as a few people have pointed out in the notes, the ring of fire deal IS pretty special, which happens because the angular size of the moon and sun are often SO similar. (Maybe Iapetus is similar enough with the solar angular size sometimes depending where Saturn is in its orbit, but at a few arcminutes instead of half a degree you can imagine the effect being somewhat less amazing. Then again, I bet solar occultations by Saturn's rings are pretty amazing, so I'm not going to hold that against the planet.)

In no way do I think this makes total solar eclipses less awesome, or think that the excitement is misplaced. It's a pretty amazing special event! It's also one that won't even exist for the earth forever, since the moon moves a few centimeters away from us each year. But as an astronomer I think it's cool that there are eclipses (and occultations and transits of the sun by moons with smaller angular sizes!) on other planets too! Though, the post I made was mostly a kneejerk eyeroll complaint about a silly factual error that might just be because the OP of the post I was annoyed by was thinking about some other facet of our solar eclipses as being unique than how it was worded. Since we can't go to any other planet to watch eclipses (that would add a whole extra layer to astrotourism), our eclipses on earth are pretty special. If you ever have the opportunity to see one, I wholly recommend going! It's really amazing.

In conclusion: here's an Io solar eclipse on Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space telescope:

[Image in black and white shows Jupiter's volcanic moon Io passing above the turbulent clouds of the giant planet, on July 24, 1996. There's a large black spot on Jupiter which is Io's shadow. The smallest details visible on Io and Jupiter are about 100 miles across (about 160 kilometres). Bright patches visible on Io are regions of sulfur dioxide frost. Io is roughly the size of Earth's moon, but 2000 times farther away.]

And here's the April 8th eclipse of the sun by the moon on Earth as seen by the GOES satellite:

[A gif of the earth showing the GOES EAST view of North and South America on April 8th over the course of the total solar eclipse. A shadow of the moon passes from the left to the upper right side of the view of the earth.]

#replying to asks #anonymous #astronomy #solar eclipse #aj is a skyentist #i am not a planetary scientist but angular size is a good thing to understand! #i have participated in some of the lunar laser ranging though #for figuring out exactly how far away the moon is and how much it's moving around #i made the goes gif but mostly just saving it from the site and resizing it lmao

[leave-your-body]

these are some screenshots from knocking on hooty's door, when eda talks it through with the owl beast. AND THEN THIS GUY SHOWS UP!!! he looks kinda familiar doesnt he?

flash forward to king's tide, king's freeing the collector,

and it cuts to eda opening her eyes. implying that it was the collector that made her wake up..

#the owl house spoilers #the owl house #toh #eda clawthorne #toh collector #toh theory #sort of? i have no clue what this could mean tho #maybe the collector's related to the curse somehow? #seeing as he's an all-pwerful being that can move moons with his finger from i dont know how far away. i wouldnt be surprised

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

When you send a spicy pic and get the reaction you were hoping for 🥰🥰🥰

#it's my crush's* birthday so a good excuse to send them them something cute that I technically took for them last year #*does it still count as a crush if you fucked a while ago and they know exactly how you feel about them and you still flirt occasionally #but also they live super far away and so a relationship isn't possible right now and you're ?maybe? fwbs but it doesn't really feel like it #whatever it was just nice to get a good reaction 😌 #i won't push it past that #I would like to have someone else to moon over please

[sleepyhomosexual]

it's weird, huh. we're so far away from each other, yet we sit under the same moon.

and when i howl at that moon, i think of you. i wonder if you're howling too, at the moon.

do you think of me, when you howl?

#uh idk i was just thinking it's crazy how we can both see the moon even though we're so far away then it turned into werewolves i guess #lol #werewolves

[solunest]

Did I ever post this? I dunno, tell me and I'll delete it.

I know this is already out of date bc I'm redesigning how I draw the boys, but I still like this.

#irlunest #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf dca #comin to yall live from the superstar daycare! #i cant be good at both the ruffles and the hands why nOT-?? #Also have yall ever noticed how FAR AWAY the ballpit is from the balcony??? #Sun must use them hydrolic gams to get there because there's a whole bridge you need to volley over to get there!! #Sun's in the ballpit and Moon's on that bridge!!!! #dude!

[starstaiined]

tara had never been good at grief, has never quite learned to let go fully. even with all the experience she's had with it.

she pauses every day at wes' favorite spot by their tree. touches the old friendship rings they had gotten from some stupid bookfair a million years ago. she carries him in her sardonic wit, in jokes she cracks and turns to see his reaction only to remember he'll never have one again. it guts her just as much as the first time, every time.

and dear, sweet liv. the guilt that never stops haunting her. to blood staining her hands. liv waa only in the friendgroup because tara dragged her in after a summer working shifts together. tara recognized something similiar in her eyes: the same sense of pervasive loneliness that she saw in the mirror. liv's woes are as much an open secret as tara's. parents who only ever care about finding the bottom of bottle, who don't blink when their daughter doesn't come home in days. or when she starts bringing vince around. liv is floundering, and it's a feeling tara knows all too well. so she folds liv into their group.

at the party, she's hiding behind amber's arm when she pulls the gun out and splatters live against the wall. tara can't help but think if she'd processed faster, moved faster, reacted faster, then she could've done something. she could've saved liv. she pulls herself together enough to throw herself at amber to save sam, why couldn't she have done it for liv?

when ny comes and tara realizes it's a chance to reinvent herself, she models herself after the girl who always understood more than tara said. her haircut, her wardrobe, the personality: she's holding onto all the pieces of liv she can.

and then there's amber. oh god, amber. where does tara even start there? amber killed. (amber killed for her.) amber lied. (amber lied to reveal the truth.) amber never cared. (amber always cared, maybe a little too much.) amber. amber. amber. amber, who cradled her face after tying her up and shoving her in a closet. ("sam won't put you first, but baby, i always will. i promise. just trust me.") tara hates her for the way everything went to. tara misses her more than anything.

it's amber who once said things only have as much power as you give them. words tara chooses to live by in six.

she over indulges her vices. she's had a little too much to drink when she hears it. put. it. down. you're better than this. wilting fingers lose their grip on the cup, and it tumbles all over some unsuspecting victim who scowls at her. but tara doesn't care, she's too busy searching for the voice. the voice she would know anywhere.

but amber isn't tucked away into the crowd, and tara is more than willing to blame alcohol for a momentary lapse in judgment. she draws in a shaky breath and refills her cup. and she hears it again. baby doll, you know better. this isn't you.

this time she catches sight of those dark dark eyes glaring disapprovingly. the breath leaves her lungs in one ragged move as she stumbles towards amber. but the vision is gone as quickly as it appeared.

tara starts seeing and hearing pieces of amber when she makes reckless decisions amber would never approve of. and, god, does it spur her to make more.

after all, tara's never been good at letting go

#scream #scream vi #tara carpenter #amber freeman #liv mckenzie #wes hicks #she doesn't tell sam #how can she when sam's already so worried? and given sam's own proposenity for seeing dead serial killers? #tara just slowly sinks into more and more reckless shit for another glimpse. another moment. it's not hurting anyone right? #(wrong everyone is terrified for her) #amber's memory seems to get particularly agitated when she flirts with shady guys with hungry eyes and roaming hands #she seems so real in those moments it's worth the price tara pays #worth heavy calloused hande slipping up under her shirt in a hazr #someone from the tara watch squad always realizes she's slipped away and find her before things go to far #(its one of the choices that scares sam the most) #but yea #tara seeing amber in the same way bella sees edward in moon

[blackbackedjackal]

I absolutely love your characters and the glimpses we get of their story, but also. I feel it's important to tell you that, as someone who has family ties to the region where Leah comes from, every time I see her on my dashboard, I am flooded with images of her doing the most mundane French/local Lozere shit ever, and it makes me happy.

I just really want her to like the Lozerian local goat cheese, is all

Thank you so much!! Leah's family eventually moves moved thier lycan hunting HQ to Toulouse but in her early years she lived in the department of Lozère with her dad when he was training her to dispatch lycans. As a young adult she was more interested in studying and understanding the lycans rather than harming them. Her father was just an absolute fuckface and would flip out at her for even entertaining the thought that lycans were anything more than monsters. So she spent as much time as she could wandering around the nearby town to ground herself and attempt to have some kind of normally in her life.

#I had in the script that she offers food to the first lycan she tries to befriend so she can definitely give him some goat cheese :V #Leah is a victim of circumstance and not the outright antagonist #more of a parallel to June’s experience with lycanthropy and how she copes with it vs June #the shit she went through was awful #but unlike June who hides away #Leah began lashing out and takes things wayyyyyy too far #ask #strawberry moon

[flecks-of-stardust]

good grief yall weren't kidding about not being far enough west

#scrolled through the map and holy hell it like never ends #we're REALLY far west #makes me wonder how far overseers can go? if iggy is this far away from moon #gourmand spoilers #downpour spoilers #rain world

[the-woild-is-y-erster]

i think i need someone (my mom) to tuck me in like i'm a little kid again

#oh how i miss her #she's still around but. its different since i grew up #can we pretend i'm five again and we still live in san antonio with the tire swing in the backyard? #can we pretend i still have playdates every other day with my best friends and we make cupcakes and accidentally burn popcorn? #that i don't have the crushing weight of having to grow up far too soon weighing on my heart? #that you might still love me? #i know i deserve that love from you! i know i do! #but what did i do to deserve having that ripped away from me like a tablecloth in a magician's trick? #was it all a lie? #were you never actually the sweet loving adoring mother i remember? #was it all a ruse or have i just turned so numb that i don't notice the sweetness anymore? #but can we pretend for one night. just one mama. that i had a nightmare and you let me crawl in your bed #and you sing that song about the moon and the one about butterflies #and you hold me in the rocking chair in the corner while i cry #and i think that this fear this pain this helplessness #will be the worst i'll ever feel? #can you hold me while i cry again mom? would that be ok? i know i've gotten too big to sit on your lap but can we try? #can you kiss my forehead and hand me my blanket and doll and tell me it's ok?

[age-of-moonknight]

“Two-Fisted,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #3.

Writer: Jed MacKay; Penciler and Inker: Alessandro Cappuccio; Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg; Letterer: Cory Petit

#Marvel #Marvel comics #Marvel 616 #Moon Knight vol. 9 #Moon Knight 2021 #Moon Knight comics #Moon Knight #Marc Spector #Mr. Knight #it is…unfortunate for Marc specifically how many of his enemies involve evil secret societies #but I appreciate this therapist for not doing the whole “but are you SURE these societies actually exist?” song and dance #and as for that last panel.…that’s the crux of it innit #the fear that Marc is his own worst enemy #going back as far as the early runs when “Marc Spector” was a carefully guarded secret in Steven Grant’s past #meant to be locked away in a well-hidden room

[places-people]

I cant edit my tags on a post but I have more thoughts now I’m so annoyed

#it was just about the anime poll and how its choices show the age of the creator BUT the option for ‘other’ being far and away more popular #suggests a disconnect between age of author and age of audience #bc the post ignores most of the classic animes of the 90s etc #like no inuyasha or dbz or sailor moon or whatever else. which is wild to me #Nate says stuff

[kil9]

i love how key and taemin both have their space things, but keys is the fun kitsch retro sci fi way & taemins is the "guy who reads quantum physics books for fun" way

#99.txt #and also the like lonely way idk how to explain this #like lets run away to the stars ill be the moon you be the sun but we're so far apart like the cold distance of space etc #and key is just like :) !!! alien guy !!!!!!! <333 #i luv taem tho hes so smart but like hes still also an idiot <3 VERRRY big mood

[decembermoonskz]

also chan waved at my side of the stadium and was on my side of the stadium so much I’m blessed

#izzy.txt★ #izzy moon concerts #he even waved at my side like idc how far away I was that made me happy #also I had a perfect view of changbin doing charmer yall like hhhhh

[anglesandpapercuts]

I wish the moon is always beautiful wherever you are.

- you like when the moon shines, isnt it?

#i cant see the moon right now #but i wish i can say how the moon is beautiful even if we're far away #because i know we still look at the same sky..