....How accurate are you when you eyeball the distance across your room in the funny farm? If you are anywhere close to the sun, you should have your room down to the thousandth of an inch.
.....you are correct in that NotBat has not shown the total of the triangulation issue. There are several issues.
(A) How much does the Moon change in diameter, from the Supermoon to the minima, and why?
I'll need to read up on supermoons; I'm sure somebody has documented and published those values. As for the why I'll say it's atmospheric refraction unless there's other greater factors I'm not considering.What does it mean, if an object in the sky periodically, and predictably, changes in diameter?
I'd say it means it has a cycle.....There are no heavy balls floating above us being held up by a magical force a butterfly can overcome by flapping its wings. The lights in the sky are just that, lights in sky.[/color]
Oh, don't worry about refraction. We're way past that sort of thing.
But the Moon does change in diameter, and we know that because we can measure the distance between two large craters, and they change proportionally.
Using your triangulation method, this would mean simply that the distance to the Moon is varying.
As you say, it has a cycle. Of course, the Moon has numerous cycles, and that is one of them.
But there's a problem. Over the course of a month, there is the phenomena of LIBRATION. This basically means that at one part of the month, we see more of the left side, and at another, more of the right hand side. In all, we see 59% of the surface of the moon over the course of a month. That's not possible with a flat plate. In fact, the geometry pretty much dictates that is what happens with a sphere.
So it's no longer just a light in the sky. It's a light in the sky that's describing cyclic paths, moving closer and further away, and there's a special robot plane flying between us and the Moon, creating the look of a blood moon during eclipse. And LIBRATION demands that this light in the sky be spherical because we see 59% of it.
And there's another robot plane that moves the light in the sky that's the Moon around on it's path and up and down, right? It's, you say, a 32 mile wide thing so that's a pretty big plane. Maybe a wingspan of 60 miles?
Leave that for now and let's go back to the changes in diameter.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/moon_ap_per.htmlYour triangulation requires, in a flat Earth model, the plane to carry this 32 mile moon closer and then farther away. How much further? How is that done?
Can I get a couple of these planes that will carry 32 mile wide big lights or whatever they are? Wait, where would I land them and gas them up? Can I pay in bitcoin?