@St_Rev I have a math question
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given the radius of the moon and your distance from it, how do you calculate how much moon is visible from your position, in area?
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You mean, how much of your field of vision is occupied by it, or what?
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crab_traveler Retweeted Brian C. Thayer
I was thinking about this: https://twitter.com/briancthayer/status/649070976882229249 … Can you calculate the strikes me surface area with just r and the distance?
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Replying to @blue_traveler @St_Rev
strikeable* Wondering about a generalizable formula that accounts for also being too close to a target…Might be ill formed question
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you're looking for a distribution of trajectories, and then integrating those over the target region. cc: @themattsimpson
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