Cliff,
Just to let you know according to my moon location program the moon set in your area around 06:15 PDT this morning at approximately 220 degrees azimuth. However, the U.S. Navel Observatory has the moon setting at your lat/long at 0357 this morning and, of course doesn't give an azimuth. Thought you should know that I saw the moon go down myself this morning at about 06:45 CDT at about 235 degrees azimuth, that is from lat 28.34 degrees north and Long 91.53 degrees west. According to my moon location program this is about the right time and place. I checked your lat and long and times against that program and they too seemed to be the right time and place. According to USNO moonset at my location was supposed to have happened at 06:07 and, of course no positional reading from the Navy...Something is really strange and the wobble theory is about as good as any. Either that or the U.S. Naval Observatory is wobbling, which is also a real possibility. But what it means is that we have a pronounced wobble that is happening regularly and at pretty close intervals astronomically speaking.
Something is not right, my moon location program shows that the moon should have set in your area at around 08:05 PDT and it should not have gone higher than 15 degrees altitude. It seems like everything we use, or everywhere we go for information is in conflict in some way with everything else. What is going on...
Resistance is Curious,
Nine of Eleven
: For those watching from latitude 46.40 N, longitude 120.543W,
: the full moon set this morning at 210 degree of compass.
: For those not familiar with these sorts of things, that
: heading is a mere 30 degrees away from magnetic south!
: And...
: Just a scant few hours earlier, the June full moon made it's
: daily appearance at 128 degrees east, southeast.
: During the entire course of it's transit across the southern
: sky, it never rose more than 30 degrees from the horizon.
: So.....What's going on here?
: Now that we have passed the point of full moon, the waning
: moon will begin rising in the early evening.
: As it does, it will be very interesting to see if each
: consecutive waning moonrise moves eastward as it should, or
: if it moves to the West as it has been doing each month
: since January of this year.
: The pattern for the last 6 months of the waning moon has been
: a consecutive daily westward movement in the point of rise.
: This has continued through the entire first half of the
: waning phase. Usually at a point near the end of the third
: quarter of wane, the moon's transit appears to make a
: radical shift back to the East.
: The only rational explanation for this is that the earth is
: experiencing a wobble! A HUGE wobble! A wobble that is so
: intense and so pronounced that it is causing not only the
: moon, but a number of stars and constellations to appear
: out of place at certain times.
: For those just becoming aquatinted with this issue, I can only
: offer this bit of advice. Trust what you see with your own
: eyes. Make up your own mind. In the end, that is what
: matters. If you give away your powers of choice and
: decision in hopes of "official" confirmation, you
: are going to hear a whole lot of silence!
: Or...worse yet, a whole lot of noise.
: -CliffMickelson
