
APOD: Find the New Moon (2022 Jul 25)
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Re: APOD: Find the New Moon (2022 Jul 25)
Easy to find on an Eizo screen. 

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Re: APOD: Find the New Moon (2022 Jul 25)
Yeah, me too. Zooming in close, the left most one has wings. Either that or it's really SaturnAnn wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:50 pmI think they are birds.smitty wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 2:43 pmYes, it is, and thank you for your help; I'd not have found it without your directions. That said, there are two small dark "spots" on the image that may puzzle folks (they puzzled me). They are located about a third of the way up the sky and to the left of the buoy. Any idea what they might be?
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Re: APOD: Find the New Moon (2022 Jul 25)
In December in the Northern Hemisphere, the full moon is above the horizon more than half of each day. Similar to the sun in summer. Though the moon can be a little more extreme because it can wander further from the equator than the sun.Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:30 pmHow so?fred888 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:25 pm "Even though the Moon is above your horizon half of the time"
is incorrect. depends on the phase, time of year and location
I think autumn last quarter moon is above the horizon more than half each day, and spring first quarter, but I may have those reversed.
Anything on the ecliptic (sun, moon, planet) spends extra time above our horizon when it's on the high point of the ecliptic. For the Northern Hemisphere the high point is near Taurus/Gemini/Orion. For the Southern Hemisphere the high point is in Sagittarius.
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Re: APOD: Find the New Moon (2022 Jul 25)
Yeah, but the claim wasn't that the Moon is in the sky half of the day. The statement wasn't incorrect.BobStein-VisiBone wrote: ↑Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:48 pmIn December in the Northern Hemisphere, the full moon is above the horizon more than half of each day. Similar to the sun in summer. Though the moon can be a little more extreme because it can wander further from the equator than the sun.Chris Peterson wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:30 pmHow so?fred888 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:25 pm "Even though the Moon is above your horizon half of the time"
is incorrect. depends on the phase, time of year and location
I think autumn last quarter moon is above the horizon more than half each day, and spring first quarter, but I may have those reversed.
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