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Sun, Earth, Moon — it’s basically L/M/S like you want but a little less boring.

Why is large better than medium to the average end user of ChatGPT though?

I don’t think there’s a way to name these things that will satisfy everyone.

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The naming schema actually tripped me up for a week or so.

My brain's initial conception of the concepts was earth-relative, so I mapped it as:

Sol = big, it's the sun Luna = medium, in-between sun and earth, space Terra = small, terrestrial

Pretty weird when the moon is as much between earth and sun as the earth is between the moon and the sun.

And when it’s in between we cannot even see it (unless it’s exactly in line).

And when it’s in between we cannot even see it (when it’s exactly in line).

We can see it’s there though - I’d say that also counts.

I believe you were referring to one kind of eclipsed and with my subtle edit I was referring to a different kind of eclipse :)

I can think of one single class of eclipse where the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun (the original comment was about “in-between sun and earth”).

Sometimes Earth is the one that is in between.

Going to start a conspiracy theory that there’s a secret eclipse where the moon goes behind the sun and they won’t let us see it

It tripped me up because I was going by distance. I thought Terra was the base model and Luna was the mid model because it’s further away.

Same here. Thought Luna was for “moonshots” and sol for.. sunshots? While keeping Terra earthly.

But alas

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