by Ann » Thu Aug 10, 2023 5:03 am
Colin Oakes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 09, 2023 11:31 pm
Even after reading the description, I still say that's the sun. I understand what a supermoon is. The thing is,
every other image I've seen of the August 4 supermoon still shows all the usual features of the lunar surface. I mean, you can still see the Mare Serenitatis, the Mare Imbrium, the Tycho and Copernicus craters, etc. -- all the usual features you're used to seeing when you look at the moon. The fact that it's a supermoon doesn't somehow make those features disappear.
But what you see in the above photo is a monochrome orb with no discernible surface features. In other words, the sun.
I don't expect the landscape and sky to be so dark if the Sun is up... but once I didn't make that connection...
It happened many years ago. I was much younger, but certainly at least 30. I was on the bus. It was evening. It may have been October. I was seated, but a young man and a young woman were standing next to me. And suddenly the young woman said: Look at the Sun.
And I looked. And indeed, there was the Sun, large, round, bright yellow and magnificent.
And I thought, dreamily: Something is wrong. It's so dark outside. The Sun is up, but it's still so dark. The Sun must be going out. We are all going to die.
Then the young man said, That's the Moon.
And it was. I tried to hide my embarrassment.
So I'd say that, yes, the APOD does indeed show the Moon. Not the Sun.
Ann
[quote="Colin Oakes" post_id=332858 time=1691623871]
Even after reading the description, I still say that's the sun. I understand what a supermoon is. The thing is, [i]every other image I've seen of the August 4 supermoon still shows all the usual features of the lunar surface.[/i] I mean, you can still see the Mare Serenitatis, the Mare Imbrium, the Tycho and Copernicus craters, etc. -- all the usual features you're used to seeing when you look at the moon. The fact that it's a supermoon doesn't somehow make those features disappear.
But what you see in the above photo is a monochrome orb with no discernible surface features. In other words, the sun.
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[img3="Moonrays of August.
Image Credit & Copyright: Gianni Tumino"]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2308/GianniTumino_Moon_Rays_JPG_LOGO_1024pix.jpg[/img3]
I don't expect the landscape and sky to be so dark if the Sun is up... but once I didn't make that connection... :oops:
It happened many years ago. I was much younger, but certainly at least 30. I was on the bus. It was evening. It may have been October. I was seated, but a young man and a young woman were standing next to me. And suddenly the young woman said: Look at the Sun.
And I looked. And indeed, there was the Sun, large, round, bright yellow and magnificent.
And I thought, dreamily: Something is wrong. It's so dark outside. The Sun is up, but it's still so dark. The Sun must be going out. We are all going to die.
Then the young man said, That's the Moon.
And it was. I tried to hide my embarrassment. :oops:
So I'd say that, yes, the APOD does indeed show the Moon. Not the Sun. :D
Ann