Like many, I was out watching the infamous last of the “tetrad” blood moon lunar eclipses on the night of September 27th. The sun had gone down at about 7:17pm CST. The moon popped up right before that at about 7:11pm CST. Somehow the sun allegedly managed to rush out (in less than an hour) to it’s position 180 degrees opposite the moon in order to cast the earth’s shadow on it. Aside from the time issue, I am struggling to understand how a sun that just went down in the west could end up casting a shadow from the north onto the moon, which was in the east. I’ll admit, I may be an idiot for putting this out there, but that just doesn’t make sense to me.
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Rob, a friend and I talked about this same observation this morning before I saw your video! Please check out my "Moonlight Cools? I believe my test shows it does!" experiment I did last weekend. Thanks and keep up your labor of love (Hebrews 6:10-12)
Still no response to my explanation (see hydrogenalpha explanation below) on why the shadow is to the left at your latitude. The answer is your latitude on a sphere. Again, if you were at the NP or 90 degrees north latitude, then you would be seeing the event correctly.The same thing applies on why does the Moon looks like it is tilted one way at moonrise and then titled another at moonset within a 24 hour period. You don't see that happening at the NP either. Your video is biased to your location. You should have taken the whole Earth into consideration when making this video. The people in the southern hemisphere would have seen the shadow entering from the right. Who was the video made for on Earth besides you Rob?
The calculations are shown in Lunar Distance Experiment 2 of 3. The problem is with the distance to the sun.