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Mr_Lumbergh t1_j4dnhir wrote

The light from the sun comes to us from far enough away that even at the earth-moon distance it’s reasonable to model the rays as parallel. They’ll be illuminating the earth-moon system in a roughly similar way, but from our perspective inside that system on a rotating earth the position of the sun on our horizon doesn’t correlate to the overall position of the sun with respect to both.

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