APOD: Find the Man in the Moon (2024 Sep 15)

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Find the Man in the Moon

Explanation: Have you ever seen the Man in the Moon? This common question plays on the ability of humans to see pareidolia -- imagining familiar icons where they don't actually exist. The textured surface of Earth's full Moon is home to numerous identifications of iconic objects, not only in modern western culture but in world folklore throughout history. Examples, typically dependent on the Moon's perceived orientation, include the Woman in the Moon and the Rabbit in the Moon. One facial outline commonly identified as the Man in the Moon starts by imagining the two dark circular areas -- lunar maria -- here just above the Moon's center, to be the eyes. Surprisingly, there actually is a man in this Moon image -- a close look will reveal a real person -- with a telescope -- silhouetted against the Moon. This well-planned image was taken in 2016 in Cadalso de los Vidrios in Madrid, Spain.

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[Ann]

The Lady in the Moon is so much more obvious!

Ann

[smitty]

Come on here! The text does not state clearly that this image of the moon has been digitally manipulated to accentuate the point being made! It comes across as dishonest! Please!

Ooop! Sorry, I failed to see that this is a "roll-on-roll off" (RORO) image showing different images depending on whether the cursor is on the image or not. Will all viewers have access to the RORO feature?

[Chris Peterson]

Come on here! The text does not state clearly that this image of the moon has been digitally manipulated to accentuate the point being made! It comes across as dishonest! Please!

What manipulation? It looks like a very natural lunar image to me.

[smitty]

Ooop! Sorry, I failed to see that this is a "roll-on-roll off" (RORO) image showing different images depending on whether the cursor is on the image or not. Will all viewers have access to the RORO feature?

[Chris Peterson]

Ooop! Sorry, I failed to see that this is a "roll-on-roll off" (RORO) image showing different images depending on whether the cursor is on the image or not. Will all viewers have access to the RORO feature?

I'm not sure if that works on touchscreen devices. Hover operations generally don't unless very deliberate and careful workarounds are provided.

[johnnydeep]

Ooop! Sorry, I failed to see that this is a "roll-on-roll off" (RORO) image showing different images depending on whether the cursor is on the image or not. Will all viewers have access to the RORO feature?

I'm not sure if that works on touchscreen devices. Hover operations generally don't unless very deliberate and careful workarounds are provided.

On my iPad anyway, if I long press the image, the hover-over image shows up. Ditto for my Android phone.

[Chris Peterson]

Ooop! Sorry, I failed to see that this is a "roll-on-roll off" (RORO) image showing different images depending on whether the cursor is on the image or not. Will all viewers have access to the RORO feature?

I'm not sure if that works on touchscreen devices. Hover operations generally don't unless very deliberate and careful workarounds are provided.

On my iPad anyway, if I long press the image, the hover-over image shows up. Ditto for my Android phone.

I don't on my Android phone. Just a context menu. Which is what I'd expect unless some very specific coding on the website isn't done.

[johnnydeep]

I'm not sure if that works on touchscreen devices. Hover operations generally don't unless very deliberate and careful workarounds are provided.

On my iPad anyway, if I long press the image, the hover-over image shows up. Ditto for my Android phone.

I don't on my Android phone. Just a context menu. Which is what I'd expect unless some very specific coding on the website isn't done.

Odd. It only works if you long press on the image on the page with the text. Not if you click the image first, which makes sense. I see the same behavior with both Chrome and Vivaldi: first the hover-over image appears, then the context menu. If I then click off it, I see just the hover-over image. I'm running Android 14.

[Chris Peterson]

On my iPad anyway, if I long press the image, the hover-over image shows up. Ditto for my Android phone.

I don't on my Android phone. Just a context menu. Which is what I'd expect unless some very specific coding on the website isn't done.

Odd. It only works if you long press on the image on the page with the text. Not if you click the image first, which makes sense. I see the same behavior with both Chrome and Vivaldi: first the hover-over image appears, then the context menu. If I then click off it, I see just the hover-over image. I'm running Android 14.

Actually, looking more closely, when I long press, a fraction of second before the context menu comes up I get the hover image, and then if I close the context menu the hover image is what's seen on the page. I have to refresh the page to get back the primary image. Also Android 14.

[johnnydeep]

I don't on my Android phone. Just a context menu. Which is what I'd expect unless some very specific coding on the website isn't done.

Odd. It only works if you long press on the image on the page with the text. Not if you click the image first, which makes sense. I see the same behavior with both Chrome and Vivaldi: first the hover-over image appears, then the context menu. If I then click off it, I see just the hover-over image. I'm running Android 14.

Actually, looking more closely, when I long press, a fraction of second before the context menu comes up I get the hover image, and then if I close the context menu the hover image is what's seen on the page. I have to refresh the page to get back the primary image. Also Android 14.

[VictorBorun]

I remember when, at 10, found out that my classmates did not see the face in the moon that I had thought was evident to everybody and I could not refer to the eye at right to explain a landing site.
Now I think that my eyesight was somewhat poor and it mattered.
The face I recognize now as my old recognition is this:

man in the moon face.jpg (15.28 KiB) Viewed 1824 times

man in the moon face -.jpg (13.98 KiB) Viewed 1824 times

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Click to view full size image 1 or image 2

[belka]

Due to my obsession with astronomy picture of the day, this picture, 'Find the man in the moon", was also posted in 2016 on Feb 1st

[Chris Peterson]

The Man in the Moon got a bit of a haircut last night!
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[johnnydeep]

The Man in the Moon got a bit of a haircut last night!
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E7_49069_Enhanced_NR_RGB_VNG.jpg

And why was that? [ EDIT: never mind - I see there was a partial lunar eclipse last night. I don't keep up with daily astronomy sky watching news, I'm afraid. ]