2017 Total Eclipse

[omaghjoe]

Just used a piece of paper Eammon... worked fine tho it hard to get the balance of size without glare.

Great example of light travelling in straight lines

[omaghjoe]

It always amazes me how then can predict these things to the second, decades in advance.

You could probably predict it for a given location yourself by just recording the path of the moon. No need even for a heliocentic solar system,  relativity or even maths.
Tho you'd need them to predict the exact time, path etc

[omaghjoe]

I think in a few million years there will be no more total eclipses as the moon is moving a few inches away from earth each year.

It's an amazing set of coincidences that gives rise to the total eclipse.

No coincidence involved

[omaghjoe]

Space Station getting in on the act

[Tony Baloney]

Space Station getting in on the act

6 of them in fact. 

[Orior]

I'm no expert, but that Space Station is getting rather close to the sun.

[BennyCake]

Space Station getting in on the act

Some hungry hoor has been at my biscuit!

[stew]

I think in a few million years there will be no more total eclipses as the moon is moving a few inches away from earth each year.

It's an amazing set of coincidences that gives rise to the total eclipse.

No coincidence involved

600,000,000 years apparently.