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Originally Posted by mental4astro
That the Moon appears as big as the sun is also a freakish coincidence.
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That is only true for the current time. The Moon is very slowly moving from us. In the past it appeared larger and in the future it will be smaller. At some point (I can't remember how many years it is) there will be no more total eclipses as the Moon will be too small to cover the Sun's disk. Only annular eclipses will occur.
Nice libration video..
