Lunation

Jack · Post by **Jack** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 1:59 am

Can't tell ope!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:58 am

Fascinating to see the moon "gyrate" so that we see quite a bit of "the other side." It's beautful - I wish it were a bit slower though.

Steve

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:46 am

To quote the late John Denver:
"Far out!"

MarkB · Post by **MarkB** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:34 am

Great picture. Denny to you participate in a program that asks people who see a new moon, to report it, giving all the particulars of when they observed it. I remember reading of such a program.

MarkB

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 7:47 am

I don't see anything. What am I supposed to be looking at?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 8:58 am

Lambchop wrote:I don't see anything. What am I supposed to be looking at?

This.

Slan,
D.

amar · Post by **amar** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:26 am

why doesn't that big ball ever fall down?

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:39 am

with the way it's moving, it looks like the definition of a Moon Dance

By the way, Denny, I love these pictures that you've been posting.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 9:53 am

MarkB wrote:Great picture. Denny to you participate in a program that asks people who see a new moon, to report it, giving all the particulars of when they observed it. I remember reading of such a program.

MarkB

This time of year we are lucky to see a full moon!

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:53 am

Certainly puts a different spin on it. <gack! ... cough, cough!>

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:21 am

That really is going fast

. The wobble seems a little worrisome.

If anyone here is interested in doing their bit for astronomy, you might be interested in this website:
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
They are studying tasks, such as marking craters, which might be able to be done by careful volunteers, thus releasing highly trained people to do things other people can't do. I think there isn't a real project going at the moment, but you can still do some things and a new project is going to be starting apparently. I did it for awhile and it was really sort of fun. You can learn as much as you want.

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:49 am

amar wrote:why doesn't that big ball ever fall down?

It does, but by the time it arrives, it has overshot its mark.

djm · Post by **djm** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:10 pm

Darwin wrote:It does, but by the time it arrives, it has overshot its mark.

Your comment belies the gravity of the situation.

djm

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 12:38 pm

Darwin wrote:
amar wrote:why doesn't that big ball ever fall down?
It does, but by the time it arrives, it has overshot its mark.

(Thread turns heavy in that inevitable way

): Are you saying that the moon is in free-fall? If so, is the earth in free-fall too to an observer on the moon? I thought the earth and moon were a system with a common centre of gravity...

Steve (biologist...)