by Star*Hopper » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:21 pm
Hi all,
New guy on the block, so thought I'd take a moment to short-intro myself. I'm an amateur astronomer of some half-century experience, & APOD rocks! -- it's where I start my days...sorta my 'home page'. I didn't realize there was an associated forum, but today a question came up....I looked around a bit & found the links to here.
I usu. spend my time 'out there'....deep sky stuff, & am not too up on sun dogs, sky pillars & retrofracting-ice ionization whizmajingies & such....so pardon my ignuntz if this is out of place. In the captioning for
today's image, it states "....A nearly full Moon and planet Earth's shadow set together in this scene ...."
Unless I'm missing some technicality, it would seem the shadow would be rising, not setting. Is there something that would cause my thought to be incorrect? What's the official party line on this event??
T'anx in advance,
Clear'ns!
~S*H
Hi all,
New guy on the block, so thought I'd take a moment to short-intro myself. I'm an amateur astronomer of some half-century experience, & APOD rocks! -- it's where I start my days...sorta my 'home page'. I didn't realize there was an associated forum, but today a question came up....I looked around a bit & found the links to here.
I usu. spend my time 'out there'....deep sky stuff, & am not too up on sun dogs, sky pillars & retrofracting-ice ionization whizmajingies & such....so pardon my ignuntz if this is out of place. In the captioning for [url=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060204.html]today's image[/url], it states "....A nearly full Moon and planet Earth's shadow set together in this scene ...."
Unless I'm missing some technicality, it would seem the shadow would be rising, not setting. Is there something that would cause my thought to be incorrect? What's the official party line on this event??
T'anx in advance,
Clear'ns!
~S*H