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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Nice Rob! Wondered about the angles myself, as they don't seem lined up right. I watched it thru binoculars and though I'm no expert, I do understand angles and how shadows work from my perspective, and the explanation the "experts" give leaves me with more head scratching than answers. Thanks for the video.
Check Celestia software and simulate the same time stamp an lock on earth and see where the light come from depending on your region. It seens about right what happened. Nothing wrong with the shadow coming north.
Please try this at home an tell me your impression.
I am in France and the same thing happened : the shadow came down just like in your video the moon was covered from 4 to 5 a.m .
thats messed up what in the world is doing thay then?
That's what we experienced here too! I am mystified by the moon, and I love that you put this up.