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Old 23-08-2019, 11:26 AM
Brown.dog (Tony)
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Newbie question about the moon

Hi Fellow Amateur Astronomers,

Having just bought a Celestron Nexstar 8SE thanks to a nice tax return, I'm about to dip my toes into Amateur Astronomy and thought I better join a forum like this to ask questions and gain knowledge. Thanks to the recent 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 I've watched a lot of docos and movies and I noticed that in all the shots of the moon, Tycho is on the lower hemisphere of the moon rather than the upper hemisphere as we see it. I'm smart enough to deduce that this is because the Americans are photographing it from the northern hemisphere and our orientation is upsidedown (for want of a better word) to them. But my question is, what if you were at the equator, would tycho be sitting somewhere around the equator of the moon? and which direction would it rotate to its new position as you travelled in a straight line from say the north pole to the south pole?

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Tony
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