Comment by dima55
1 day ago
> And what on earth is the first plot? A moon that rises to its zenith doesn't become half lit
If it rose to the zenith, it would. This is the paradox.
1 day ago
> And what on earth is the first plot? A moon that rises to its zenith doesn't become half lit
If it rose to the zenith, it would. This is the paradox.
Huh ? You do realise that the apparent motion of the moon over a given day is because of the rotation of the earth, and that the changes in the relative positions of the sun and moon, and hence the lighting conditions of the moon, are negligible ?
But then it wouldn't be sunset anymore. I understood the whole article to be about things you can see at sunset.
But a full moon can't rise to it's zenith at sunset.
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