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ErrantAstro
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ErrantAstro
9y ago
There are two principal factors at work here. The first is the eccentricity of the lunar orbit - 0.0549 which means that depending on where in the lunar orbit the eclipse occurs, the moon is closer or further away meaning the apparent size