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Originally Posted by David Johnston2
I did in fact mean the subsolar point when I said "east pole" and it seems to me the that the place to put the terminator on a tide locked planet would be running through the subsolar point and of course it's opposite.
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That’s just
bizarre. The subsolar point is the middle of the sunlit hemisphere, and the terminator is the edge of the sunlit hemisphere. The middle of a hemisphere can’t be at its edge.