TheBanyanTree: The Equatorial Moon

[auntiesash]

Imagine the moon as a disco ball in a very large room and the sun is a
spotlight  off to one side.  It's shining on the side of the disco ball.
 We're on one side of the room looking at the disco ball and the shiny side
is on our right.  Peter is on the other side of the gym, facing us, looking
at the disco ball and the shiny side is on his left.

Same room.  Same disco ball.  Same shiny side.  Different point of view.

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu>wrote:

> Quoting auntiesash <auntiesash at gmail.com>:
>
>
>  So, for us Northern hemisphere types, a waxing moon is "a sliver on the
>> right growing bigger every night".  If we look up at the moon, we are
>> looking south, and the illuminated portion is on our right.  If we lie
>> down
>> and point our feet so that we are facing north, then the illuminated
>> portion
>> is on our left.
>>
>
> I've always used the birthing/dying (b/d) method to tell waxing or waning.
>  If waxing, or birthing, then and like the small "b", the round part (i.e.,
> the illuminated part) is on the right.  If it's waxing, or dying, then like
> the small "d", the round part is on the left.  I've never noticed that this
> changed whether I was lying down with my feet pointing north or south.  But
> of course I'll have to try this post haste. Unless, like the Woofess, are
> pullin' my leg.
>
>


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