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Full Sun - Half Moon?
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm
And you want to know something awesome?!

If the angle between the sun and moon is ~180º, you get a full moon!
If you get exactly 180º, you get a lunar eclipse!

If it's ~0º, you get a new moon.
If it's exactly 0º, you get a solar eclipse!

And that's why people study astronomy... Tongue
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Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jiggerj - September 25, 2013 at 3:50 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jackalope - September 25, 2013 at 4:07 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jiggerj - September 25, 2013 at 4:19 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 25, 2013 at 10:12 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Captain Colostomy - September 25, 2013 at 4:14 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jackalope - September 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Doubting Thomas - September 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by pocaracas - September 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jackalope - September 25, 2013 at 7:09 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by pocaracas - September 26, 2013 at 4:29 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 8:34 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by freedomfromforum - September 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jackalope - September 25, 2013 at 7:25 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Captain Colostomy - September 25, 2013 at 8:25 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Chas - September 25, 2013 at 8:41 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Captain Colostomy - September 26, 2013 at 12:24 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Tkcjpii - October 27, 2013 at 10:55 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 1:18 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Ben Davis - September 26, 2013 at 6:48 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by pocaracas - September 26, 2013 at 8:56 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 9:12 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by pocaracas - September 26, 2013 at 9:39 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Doubting Thomas - September 26, 2013 at 10:14 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by pocaracas - September 26, 2013 at 11:33 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Doubting Thomas - September 26, 2013 at 1:02 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Doubting Thomas - September 26, 2013 at 9:13 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 10:07 am
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 12:25 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Jiggerj - September 26, 2013 at 4:37 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Cyberman - September 26, 2013 at 7:05 pm
RE: Full Sun - Half Moon? - by Captain Colostomy - October 27, 2013 at 11:13 am

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