Dima Kogan: Lunar terminator paradox

There's an optical illusion known by names like the "lunar terminator paradox". This has much discussion and descriptions online, but none made sense in my head, so I wrote this program to figure out what was going on. The paradox: The moon is illuminated by the sun After sunset, the sun is below, so we would expect the illuminated portion of the moon to point down, towards where the sun is This isn't what always happens! I was camping in…

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