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- Sun Sep 27, 2015 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tonight: A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse (2015 Sep 27)
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Re: APOD: Tonight: A Supermoon Lunar Eclipse (2015 Sep 27)
When someone WATCHES a lunar eclipse, a common question is why the shadow goes from left to right. They expect the moon to rise in the east and go through our shadow, and thus the shadow overtake the moon from the right. This video perpetuates that erroneous thought pattern. The moon takes ~ a month...