So 3 days ago I'm sitting at a stop light between 8pm-9pm and on the horizon the moon is rising and it's massive and pretty cool looking. 2 days ago I'm driving somewhere with my kid and it's about the same time, 8pm-9pm'ish and the moon is huge but not as big as the day before. I remember specifically because I mentioned how cool the moon looked the day before. Last night about 10 o'clock I take out the garbage and notice it's really dark out yet it's a clear night because I can see the stars. I was wondering if I could see that comet that was supposed to pass by. Then I thought, "where's the moon?" Seems like it should have been lighter out since it had been so bright the last 2 days with the moon out. So today, just after noon, I see the moon up in the sky and it was just over a half a moon.
Call me all the names you want you fucking glowniggers, but I thought the moon semi sorta was how they counted days and it waxed and waned slowly through the month. Am I to understand that the moon will rise at roughly the same time two nights in a row at almost full brightness, then not show up at all on the night after but show up in the middle of the day as a just over half moon?
Here's a few points to help you understand the moon, it's orbit, and the relationship between all the variables at play.
You're in a different place (position) in each instance of moon sighting in your post.
The moon waxes and wanes as it orbits the Earth due to the moon and the Earth's orbits.
The size of the moon seems to change as it gets further from the horizon in your perspective. To avoid this optical illusion, hold a quarter beside the moon at the full length of you arm for a few minutes and judge the size based on that measurement.
The moon seen during the daytime is being witnessed at an extreme angle which will always show an extreme and skewed view of the moon due to the relation between your view point and the moon's orbit around us.
If you purchase an accurately scaled orbital model of the sun, moon, and Earth you can mark your position on the earth and watch this happen on the model the same way you see it happening in real life.
You're comparing a viewing at extreme angles to a more straight on viewing and it's confusing, but as you begin to realize that the moon doesn't orbit the Earth at one parallel in relation to the Earth (ie at the equator) and the Earth also doesn't orbit the sun at on parallel in relation to the sun, you end up with phenomenon you have described on a regular basis.
In a globe Earth, heliocentric model this matches natural reality. A problem occurs with the flat Earth model where this doesn't happen the same way we witness it in real life.
extreme angles dont make sense in so much as you have a direct line of sight to the moon. There are no extreme angles, especially if it is higher in the sky
An extreme angle between you and the moon in relation to the part of the moon facing the sun.
You can draw a line from the sun to the moon and determine that the Earth is no longer between the moon and sun, that the moon is beside the Earth in relation to the sun.
Is that the only issue you find with my explanation? Are there further questions?
The sunlight reflecting from the moon during sunrise, we don't see the suns entire coverage of the moon's surface. What isn't being understood here?
The spectrum (because the spectra is only one wavelength) of the moon and the sun are the same, what are you talking about?
If you closely compare the spectrum of the moon with the spectrum of the sun, you will see the spectrum of the moon is the same — confirming that moonlight is the same as sunlight.
Quoted from people who have studied it more than either of us.
[ - ] Prairie 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 02:20:21 ago (+1/-0)
This will be a stretch, but try. We are always seeing the same face of the moon, yes, but the sun isn't, and that's what determines what part of the moon is illuminated. The sun can be illuminating part of the far side of the moon so that the side we see is only partly illuminated.
Three different website explaining it, all with the same conclusion. The light SPECTRUM (because a spectra is one wavelength among many) is the same from the moon and the sun.
Did you want to switch to a different topic? Did you understand the point about illumination of the moon?
As to your question about the moon looking the color of the moon rather than sunlight, try contemplating why a red apple looks red even when lit by the same sunlight.
The moon is like a shitty girlfriend. Can’t count on her. Don’t know where the bitch is. Some days she turns up bloated and glowing. Other days, after an absence, she shows up skinny and skanked out. Idk. Just a thot.🤣
So one night it rises at 9pm, the next night it's not out at all and the night after that it's just over half a moon just after noon. Did you not read my post or are you really bad at math? If it's ~50 minutes later each day, it would have been up on the 3rd night, not show up around noon the day after.
[ + ] jfroybees
[ - ] jfroybees 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:55:48 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] lord_nougat
[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 01:12:33 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] boekanier
[ - ] boekanier 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 01:56:02 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:21:32 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 9 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:43:12 ago (+10/-1)
You're in a different place (position) in each instance of moon sighting in your post.
The moon waxes and wanes as it orbits the Earth due to the moon and the Earth's orbits.
The size of the moon seems to change as it gets further from the horizon in your perspective. To avoid this optical illusion, hold a quarter beside the moon at the full length of you arm for a few minutes and judge the size based on that measurement.
The moon seen during the daytime is being witnessed at an extreme angle which will always show an extreme and skewed view of the moon due to the relation between your view point and the moon's orbit around us.
If you purchase an accurately scaled orbital model of the sun, moon, and Earth you can mark your position on the earth and watch this happen on the model the same way you see it happening in real life.
You're comparing a viewing at extreme angles to a more straight on viewing and it's confusing, but as you begin to realize that the moon doesn't orbit the Earth at one parallel in relation to the Earth (ie at the equator) and the Earth also doesn't orbit the sun at on parallel in relation to the sun, you end up with phenomenon you have described on a regular basis.
In a globe Earth, heliocentric model this matches natural reality. A problem occurs with the flat Earth model where this doesn't happen the same way we witness it in real life.
[ + ] Sleazy
[ - ] Sleazy 3 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:47:44 ago (+4/-1)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 01:00:12 ago (+3/-1)
You can draw a line from the sun to the moon and determine that the Earth is no longer between the moon and sun, that the moon is beside the Earth in relation to the sun.
Is that the only issue you find with my explanation? Are there further questions?
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 -2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 01:15:50 ago (+1/-3)
LOL what the fuck are you trying to say here? That is retarded as shit. The same side ALWAYS faces us!
[ + ] ruck_feddit
[ - ] ruck_feddit 2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:19:57 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 01:58:12 ago (+1/-0)
It is possible to see only half of a ball covered in light. You know that, stop playing dumb.
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:05:00 ago (+1/-1)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:07:30 ago (+1/-0)
Please try to pay attention and keep up with the rest of us.
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 -1 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:10:23 ago (+0/-1)
Interesting that you would resort to claims that I don't know what you're talking about when it was YOU making the claim.
Who really needs to pay more attention here? (rhetorical question; you do)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:16:35 ago (+0/-0)
The spectrum (because the spectra is only one wavelength) of the moon and the sun are the same, what are you talking about?
Quoted from people who have studied it more than either of us.
https://tucson.com/lifestyles/recreation/moons-spectrum-of-color-same-as-suns/article_6b823fc3-487e-5e7e-9a60-b6bd15c25ec2.html#:~:text=If%20you%20closely%20compare%20the,is%20the%20same%20as%20sunlight.
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/spectroscopy-101--types-of-spectra-and-spectroscopy
https://www.quora.com/Do-the-spectroscopy-light-bands-that-reflect-back-from-the-moon-exactly-match-the-suns-spectral-pattern
Three websites with the same explanations.
[ + ] Deleted
[ - ] deleted 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:19:16 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:18:46 ago (+0/-0)
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/spectroscopy-101--types-of-spectra-and-spectroscopy
https://www.quora.com/Do-the-spectroscopy-light-bands-that-reflect-back-from-the-moon-exactly-match-the-suns-spectral-pattern
https://tucson.com/lifestyles/recreation/moons-spectrum-of-color-same-as-suns/article_6b823fc3-487e-5e7e-9a60-b6bd15c25ec2.html#:~:text=If%20you%20closely%20compare%20the,is%20the%20same%20as%20sunlight.
What are you talking about?
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:22:16 ago (+1/-0)
Further it does not 'prove' that the light is a reflection.
Demonstrate how it would prove it.
[ + ] NegaroNegaroNeeegaro
[ - ] NegaroNegaroNeeegaro 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 05:51:33 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 06:00:36 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Prairie
[ - ] Prairie 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 02:20:21 ago (+1/-0)
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 -1 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:06:04 ago (+0/-1)
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:20:24 ago (+0/-0)
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/articles/spectroscopy-101--types-of-spectra-and-spectroscopy
https://www.quora.com/Do-the-spectroscopy-light-bands-that-reflect-back-from-the-moon-exactly-match-the-suns-spectral-pattern
https://tucson.com/lifestyles/recreation/moons-spectrum-of-color-same-as-suns/article_6b823fc3-487e-5e7e-9a60-b6bd15c25ec2.html#:~:text=If%20you%20closely%20compare%20the,is%20the%20same%20as%20sunlight.
Three different website explaining it, all with the same conclusion. The light SPECTRUM (because a spectra is one wavelength among many) is the same from the moon and the sun.
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:21:42 ago (+0/-0)
Further it does not 'prove' that the light is a reflection.
[ + ] Her0n
[ - ] Her0n 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:23:27 ago (+0/-0)
What effects are you talking about?
If it doesn't, then how is the moonlight being "created"?
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 03:25:09 ago (+1/-0)
The moon emits it's own light.
How do you 'prove' the moon reflects the sun's light?
Having a similar spectrum doesn't prove that.
[ + ] Prairie
[ - ] Prairie 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 04:54:19 ago (+0/-0)
As to your question about the moon looking the color of the moon rather than sunlight, try contemplating why a red apple looks red even when lit by the same sunlight.
[ + ] Love240
[ - ] Love240 1 point 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 05:59:28 ago (+1/-0)
My point wasn't that the moon looks moon colored. It was that the light itself has observably different properties, such that it has a cooling effect.
[ + ] Hoobeejoo
[ - ] Hoobeejoo 2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 02:33:40 ago (+2/-0)
Hahahaha. That is about the most polite way of saying Flat Earthers are delusional I have ever read.
[ + ] Deleted
[ - ] deleted 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 07:11:09 ago (+0/-0)
[ + ] x0x7
[ - ] x0x7 6 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:35:06 ago (+6/-0)
[ + ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey
[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 7 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:31:02 ago (+7/-0)
Idk. Just a thot.🤣
[ + ] Sunman_Omega
[ - ] Sunman_Omega 6 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:53:14 ago (+6/-0)
Damn nigga. What kind of chicks did you date in life?
[ + ] Steelerfish
[ - ] Steelerfish 2 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:29:38 ago (+2/-0)
[ + ] TheSimulacra
[ - ] TheSimulacra 3 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:08:05 ago (+3/-0)
There is nothing wrong with or odd about the way the moon rises and sets and waxes and wanes, sorry.
[ + ] Swej_Ehtsag
[ - ] Swej_Ehtsag [op] -1 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 00:11:32 ago (+0/-1)
[ + ] NegaroNegaroNeeegaro
[ - ] NegaroNegaroNeeegaro 0 points 7 monthsSep 25, 2024 05:49:45 ago (+0/-0)