Is the moon sideways?

well I don't see that I have a way to upload my pic and an example pic from google here, anyone with any idea on how I can do that?

It's amazing how many people haven't the first clue as to the NORMAL motions of the moon. Folks, it does not appear in the same place night after night and week after week. It's orbiting the earth every 27 days, so it appears in a different location every night and half of the month appears during the day.

Please open your eyes and don't just assume because you're ignorant of these things that something is wrong.

I'm the OP. After reading the explanation in regards to field rotation and thinking about it, it makes sense. I noticed last night that the moon looked the same as it did two nights ago when i started the thread. Moon was in about the same spot in the sky (east), and still darkening from the top down. This morning when I took the dog out, at around 6:30, the moon was now in the south and was dimmer on the left side.

The rotation you are describing is field rotation. Here is the explanation again as it seems you ignored it the first time.

Nothing wrong with the Moon. What you are seeing is called field rotation. It is an APPARENT (not real) rotation that happens to everything in the sky. It is because you are looking at it from a round rotating surface.

The Moon's shadow is still left to right. The North pole of the Moon still points to the North. YOU are the one that turned. It is an optical illusion known as field rotation. When the Moon (or anything else in the sky) rises you are looking East and it APPEARS rotated to the left. When high in the sky you are looking South and it is upright. When it sets you are looking West and it APPEARS rotated to the right.

How do we know it is not a real rotation? First, YOU turned. When the Moon is just past the highest point in the sky you can see it both ways. Look South and you see the shadow on the left, look West and up and you see the shadow on top. Magic! Second, when we see it setting and appears to be rotated to the right, somebody on the other side of the world sees it rising AT THE SAME TIME and sees it appearing to be rotated to the left!

apparently, yes. many sleepless nights just thinking about that. so many details pointing in that direction, and i really wish i could know the answer. but as there is no way i can ever know the answer, i can only take a very wild guess

Dont know how many times the field rotation has been the explanation. But heres a question how do people from all over north America , which has so many varying degrees . Yet we all see the same "exact" view?

How many times do we have to explain?

F-I-E-L-D . R-O-T-A-T-I-O-N

Look it up, learn something.

No,you don't all see the exact same view, but since the moon's 250,000 miles away, the differences between people from east to west, or north to south in the US are very small. You'd have to take pictures at exactly the same time from different locations to really notice them.

And remember that going east to west, the moon rises later as you go across the country.

No field rotation here

Fixed/Variable. LoL at your archaic field theory.

Yes its been looking weird the past couple ears

You guys are trippin nutsacks.

This thread was made in january.

We've been noticing changes in both the moon and sun over Dallas, TX for several years now. In over 60 years of observing the moon phases, my husband and I had never seen what we call 'the Cheshire cat grin,' with only the bottom of the moon showing, as if it's waned from top to bottom. In addition, for almost 20 years, the sun has always set directly over our next door neighbor's house, almost due west. It now sets several hundred feet to the northwest. The following is a YouTube video of Inuits discussing that the sun & moon are now in different locations. [link to www.youtube.com]

For many years, I'd always turned on our outdoor Christmas lights at the same time every evening--4:45 p.m.--because it became too dark to find the electric plugs in the shrubbery after that time. A couple of years ago, I realized that it stayed lighter later in the evening--until close to 5:30. At the same time, a friend in Yorkshire, England, noticed that it was getting dark earlier than usual on her evening commute. I took a globe and by tilting it, I could see how if Dallas were to dip farther to the south, Yorkshire would tilt farther north. I asked the premier local meteorologist if this was possible and was basically ridiculed. Then, a few years later, it came out that the North Pole has shifted almost 1,100 kilometers into the Arctic Ocean. All of this is, I believe, part of a polar shift that's been going on for close to 100 years, but it's finally gotten to a point where it's observable by amateurs. Just my two cents.

Where do you think the idea for the Cheshire cat came from?


Always? Really? Gonna have to call BS on that one.


That was a MAGNETIC pole shift. A physical pole shift would be noticed by everybody, not just a few kooks on the Internet. No telescopes would track right anymore (they still do). The North star would not be in the right place (it is). Stonehenge would not work anymore (it does).

Yep! A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!

Does not matter when it started. However that phenomena happened few days ago as well.

That one is a video filmed in Canada:

First sighting here was in 2007. -->

Thread: Anyone else notice the moon sideways tonight?

Since that year, that phenomena increase in frequency.

So do you know something about whats happening?

LOL, 2007 huh?
[link to imageshack.us]
Whoops, so much for that idea.

It's that time of year again, when tards all around the forum gather to cry foul at the cheshire moon.

I see, you continue to post fake garbage.

Not fake. It appears exactly the same way in "Space Biology and Medicine: Space and its exploration - Volume 1" published in 1993.
[link to books.google.com]

LIAR



NOT many at all and the only one does not influence so much the stuff.



Call it just with its name: latitude



NOT.


SO at this point, I don't know where you did study /or read something about astronomy.





You are posting the same crappy garbage things.

Folks just rent a book in a library and you'll see that what I wrote is simply right and obvious. You'll will never find just a single image of a sideway moon and relative text to describe it, even near the equator zones where can be tilted just a little due to earth field rotation.

You can take a look also in movies before 2007, your own video or photos and other stuff.

The scumming people (or ignorant ones) are full online.

Simply do not follow the garbage stuff.


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Last Edited by IWASTHERE on 12/07/2012 12:06 PM

Nope. Anyone can check that book out at a library and see for themselves, but the online scan proves me right unless and until you can prove otherwise. So far all you offer are defamatory remarks.

Pick up your toys and back home instead.

What are you lolling about? you have post the same crap: A 40 year old single ..."PHOTO" ,that does not prove anything.

However now, can you post the direct link to nasa site so I can read something about it?

Last Edited by IWASTHERE on 12/07/2012 12:39 PM

Pole shift soon ?