Aristarco revisitado

Abstract

Using triangulations proposed by the ancient astronomer Aristarchus, we obtained in this work the total time to lunar and solar eclipses and the maximum duration of solar eclipses. For this purpose, we used the values of the orbital period of the Moon and the values of the ratio between the Earth-Moon distance and the Earth's diameter. We combined them with two other geometric parameters obtained from the processing of images of the Sun and Moon eclipses. The results were compared with current values.