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Post by The Herald Erjen on Jul 10, 2017 16:59:14 GMT
At 1/4 past Midnight I looked at the moon from my porch, at its zenith, about 45 degrees in the sky, as opposed to the sun which at noontime yesterday was almost directly over me. The ungodly would have you believe this is all perfectly normal. Indeed, as would the sensible godly. I'm assuming this "observation" was made near the summer solstice. At this time of year the sun's noontime declination (the angular distance of a point north or south of the celestial equator) is at its most northerly. Also at this time, the full moon will have a midnight declination at its most southerly. If one were to expect the midnight full moon to be at its most northerly like the noonday sun, what one would observe would be very confusing because the moon is almost 45 degrees further south than the sun. But that expectation is wrong: at the same time that the equator is tilted up on the noon side of the earth, it is tilted down on the midnight side of the earth.  I've been living here for slightly over thirteen years, and I never noticed it before. |
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