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Decoman · 03-14-10, 01:55 AM

I found a youtube link that seem to explain why the notion of earths shadow on moon is wrong:

Edit: Oh this is some tricky stuff. I am positive that the current moon graphics is wrong, because it seems that the angle is not the angle that the moon is orbiting the earth, which looks to be around 5%. So I imagine the current angle of about 45 degrees is about 40 degrees too much.

What I can't wrap my mind around, is how the moon phases show throughout a period of 50 years or so.

03-14-10, 01:55 AM	#4
Decoman Frogman Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 306 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I found a youtube link that seem to explain why the notion of earths shadow on moon is wrong: Edit: Oh this is some tricky stuff. I am positive that the current moon graphics is wrong, because it seems that the angle is not the angle that the moon is orbiting the earth, which looks to be around 5%. So I imagine the current angle of about 45 degrees is about 40 degrees too much. What I can't wrap my mind around, is how the moon phases show throughout a period of 50 years or so. Last edited by Decoman; 03-14-10 at 02:28 AM.