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Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 3:50 pm
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Today at 10 a.m. the sun was full in the sky. I could see the whole thing. In the west the moon was at 2:00 in the sky. Nothing was between them, yet the moon was only at half moon. Anyone know why?
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:07 pm
It appears that way because the moon is at a ~90 degree angle with respect to the earth-sun orientation.
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:14 pm
I'd still run out and stockpile bushmaster assault rifles if I were you. Just in case.
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:19 pm
(September 25, 2013 at 4:07 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: It appears that way because the moon is at a ~90 degree angle with respect to the earth-sun orientation.
Took a while to work this out in my head, but I got it. Thanks!
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:20 pm
(September 25, 2013 at 4:14 pm)Captain Colostomy Wrote: I'd still run out and stockpile bushmaster assault rifles if I were you. Just in case.
And tinfoil. 
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 4:33 pm
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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... 
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 7:09 pm
(September 25, 2013 at 4:51 pm)pocaracas Wrote: 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...
Well... Eclipses require things to be lined up along the plane of the earth's orbit, you can have a 0/180 degree alignment along the lunar orbital plan and not have things line up correctly. That's why, even though 0/180 alignments occur every lunar orbit, eclipses are less frequent.
Interesting eclipse factoid: Solar eclipses are more common than lunar eclipses. However, as the shadow path is much smaller in area for solar eclipses, a particular location will have a viewable lunar eclipse much, much more frequently (i.e. solar eclipses are viewable only from a typically narrow path on earth, whereas lunar eclipses can be viewed from any location where the moon is visible).
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm
This astronomy stuff is all over my head.... 
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RE: Full Sun - Half Moon?
September 25, 2013 at 7:25 pm
(September 25, 2013 at 7:14 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: This astronomy stuff is all over my head....
I see what you did there.
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