Since when does the Moon phase horizontally

Thread: What is up with the moon?

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I am in the process of uploading video of the moon doing this horizontal thing. The moon just rose here at 10:35 PM and I was waiting for it. My son actually took the video and he did a great job because you can see the trees in front of the moon and you can see the moon moving up into the sky so you know the camera isn't turned around 180 degrees (My video camera corrects itself when I turn it over 180 degrees.) The video is 89 MG and is right now 20% uploaded. I'll probably start a new thread though...well, maybe not.

What you've described is not only perfectly normal, but it MUST happen this way.

The principle at work is that the bright round edge of the moon (not the line between lunar light and dark, which is called the terminator) MUST always point toward the sun along a great circle. At sunset in the time of First Quarter (where we are right now, in the days around December 14, 2010) and at sunrise in a Last Quarter, the great circle connecting the sun and the moon rises up from the horizon and becomes horizontal at its highest point.

The moon reaches its highest point in the sky that day at sunset in a first quarter and at sunrise in a last quarter. So, at those moments, the moon MUST be horizontal.

The opposite is best seen a few days before and after New Moon. In the winter and early spring of the year, the waxing crescent moon lies almost flat, a few days after new moon, with the lighted round edge pointing almost straight down.

Look again, though, in the summer or early autumn. At those times, the waxing crescent in temperate latitudes will look like it's standing on one of its horns, with the center of the bright rounded edge always pointing at the sun of course.

The reason for the difference is that in the winter and early spring, the waxing crescent has moved north of the sun in the evening sky. The great circle leading to the sun makes a steep angle with the horizon. Since the bright round edge of the moon must always point toward the sun, it lies flat.

In summer and early autumn, the moon after sunset has moved south of the sun, and the line of the great circle runs almost parallel to the horizon. Therefore, the crescent moon must stand nearly upright so the round lighted edge can face the sun.

Man, people are dumb.

its like you people have never looked at the moon before.

Every time I or someone brings this issue up, immediately there is someone tell me or us that it is normal for the Moon to phase horizontally. They provide an elaborate explanation for it.

I still don't buy. I've been around 4 decades and have seen the moon thousands of times at night. Please don't tell me that what I have been seeing in the past few years is normal, shills.

Can someone show me a photo of the moon phasing horizontally from the 1990's or earlier? I look at the moon tonight and it looks like someone lopped the top 1/4 of it off.

Video I put up: (I did start a new thread)

Thread: Video of the moon showing it is horizontally dark - AT THE TOP!

This. I want this NOW. Astronut/whoever. Pre-2001 horizontal moon phase picture.

I would suggest finding some 3rd grader doing a science fair project with styrofoam balls and a flashlight and ask him to teach you. Because anything we say goes right over your head.

Look, tard...Its simple physics. Not only has it always happened, it HAS to happen. It would be physically impossible for it NOT to tilt throughout the night.

It is called field rotation. It is because you observe from a round, rotating Earth. Your perspective changes and the Earth rotates. EVERYTHING in the sky appears to rotate. They ALWAYS have. Just because you never noticed before doesn't mean it never happened.

The moon looks very similar to this tonight (go to 3:40 to 4:00) for a sharp focus on it):

[link to www.youtube.com]

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

There you go, explains it in a way even a retard could understand.

Show us a video or photo (from sometime before the year 2000) of the moon where it phases horizontally and then you can call me a tard, Anonymous Coward.

I dont have to show you anything. Your mental illness rules your simple little mind. If anyone did show you a video or picture from 1990, you would claim it was fake and call that person a shill.
I tell you what...you just keep believing that something is weird with the moon, and the rest of us with common sense and an education, will continue to laugh at you.
Yeah, that works for me.

Sorry, AC. I didn't mean for this to get ugly. I would not claim it was a fake if you could point me to a link of a photo taken before 2000 showing a 'wet moon' looking similar to the youtube video I posted above. I will then tuck my tard tail between my legs and gladly accept astronomy tard status on this very thread.

Don't worry, a shills natural reaction is just to call us tards. Of course they can't show any video or photo of the moon doing this 10 years ago, if it just started happening, even though it has "always happened like this." In that case there should be tons of photos and videos.

I am amazed how many of us are here that are saying that there is a change! And gee, NONE of us ever saw before now. Oh that's right, we weren't paying attention.

Dear Moontards

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

Thanks

yeah, we know there is slight tilt throughout the nite, but the moon is rising this way in Missouri, and staying this way the whole night, so shut up with the tilt stuff, stupid shills.

I reject your fantastical conditions. What, you claim Sarah Palin is from Betelgeuse and the only proof you will accept that she is human is a picture of a caribou drinking a Pepsi?

Why should I buy into your chain of reasoning, requiring evidence constructed specifically for your fantasy?

In any case:

[link to www.flickr.com]


Now let the back-pedaling begin!

Wrong. It rotates. Through the night. 180 degrees from horizon to horizon. Like the rest of the Solar System. Like the constellations. Like the rest of the visible Universe.

The same disturbance that are pulling the Earth orbit closer to the Sun, increasing the magma levels at the underground, and disrupting the magnetic field, is also affecting the Moon.

Specifically when the Moon is at the inner solar side of its orbit. The force is so strong that it pull the Moon farther from Earth on that position, and also tilt the Moon's angle. We will expect an unusual increase of waves, and severe coastal flooding, when the Moon is on the other side.
In summary:

Positions:
SUN-EARTH-MOON ---> The moon is pulled closer to the Earth, triggering coastal flooding & unusual high waves.
SUN-MOON-EARTH ---> The moon is pulled with the Earth toward/closer to the Sun

This, is not just weird, but we are in the middle of a Worldwide Cataclysm. We have not to wait for doom, we are inside it.

No shit. Been watching the Moon now for 57 years. Nothing new there, same ole same ole Moon dancing its same ole drunken dance.

"Since when does the Moon phase horizontally"....
about a few billions ago...tard

Luna will be a 'wishing moon' when she is new~

The predicted Moon for you tonight:

[link to picasaweb.google.com]

idiot

ohh fuck now you've done it!!!

I like your Avatar. The penis is bad. The gun is good!

Someone noticed it in 2008 too:

[link to planetariumweb.madison.k12.wi.us]

I'm going on a hunt for older pics.