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Old 06-12-2006, 06:46 PM
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The "Moon picture" is upside down?

The image of the Current Moon (left column) is a Northern Hemisphere image (about 35 deg N)... tsk! tsk! Or perhaps it's just a refractor view?

Related, has anyone noticed how often "rising moon" or "rising sun" images in films and documentaries (eg the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet) are wrong for the hemisphere they're supposed to be in? (eg rising up and to the right, when the location is supposed to be the Southern Hemisphere). Film makers are seldom astronomically aware. It's amazing what they make the Moon do.

But beware. Once you've started looking at astronomical images on film or TV, it becomes an obsession!

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