Moon Gazers! Excellent NASA Animation of 2013 Moon Phases

Thank you Lloyd! :-) Truly amazing!
Besides making it easy to understand the movements of the Moon, - more exactly that how it supposed to be - it made me clear, that something is off, and I can PROVE it by photos.

The animation shows that the tilt - the "libration" - angle of the Moon's axis is never more than 45 degrees away from the vertical.

The photos of U-moon (I will put the links on in a minute) prove that - in reality - this tilt is now goes near 90 degrees, that is almost laying, horizontal, a "U-moon"
All my life experience say that it used to be exactly as the animation shows in most of my life, meaning U moon is a NEW phenomenon of the past decade



Last Edited by emerald_glow on 11/24/2012 12:48 PM

OK, here is my thread from 2010 on the same subject:

Thread: U - moon ("laid back" crescent) shows that position of Sun Earth and Moon has changed- update 2012: PROOF!!!! on page 6, new info on page11

Photos from Spaceweather.com from 2010 March...you have to scroll down to "more crescents". Of course Spaceweather does not talk about the tilt, it only says how beautiful is the Moon crescent, but you can see that the angle is way off, and you can see from different parts of the world, far away from each other.

[link to spaceweather.com]

Update: I get an "unable to connect database" message by clicking on any of those links...I hope you guys will be more lucky

Last Edited by emerald_glow on 11/24/2012 01:05 PM

This link has an excellent description of field rotation, including a very good animation of the effect.

[link to calgary.rasc.ca]

I would assume that since the moon has such a strong gravitational effect on the earth that if it actually changed positions there would be many observable effects on the earth. Tides for instance would get crazy wild. If you look at tide tables you'll note that they aren't changing. For anyone on the coast this can be visually checked, look at the tide tables for your area, then go to the beach and check it.