To USELESS EATER and all who are following this discussion,
I decided to post some comments outside this thread only because I wanted more people to see it (thinking it might be 'buried' here). Also, others who have weighed in on the subject may find that thread to be a more appropriate place where they might choose to place their comments. I may be wrong, but it's already posted...
The link is:
MOON ROTATION - APOLOGY & WITHDRAWAL EXPLANATION
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=65927
Thank you for your diligent efforts on this subject to everyone who seeks the truth in sincerity.
Blessings,
Mammonator
: : Well...Ace does it again.
: Ace has done a good job in photographing, but not so good in
: presenting.
: If you notice the time stamps the photo taken second is placed
: to the left of the photo taken first. So if reading left to
: right the photo of 0417 is seen before the one of 0053,
: implying an anti-clockwise rotation. I would be interested
: as to why this was done. Acetro, can you tell me why you
: did this? I would have placed the 0053 to the left of the
: 0417 so they could be read left to right in chronological
: order.
: But if you read these photos right-to-left ie in their true
: chronological order, this indicates an apparent clockwise
: rotation. This apparent clockwise rotation is well
: documented and understood. Basic astronomy books and a
: search on "apparent moon rotation" will bring a
: wealth of info on this.
: So what causes this APPARENT rotation? The moon APPEARS to
: rotate clockwise due to its orbit of the Earth. It shows us
: the same face, hence the dark side of the moon, and has an
: orbit that is inclined at 5 degrees to the ecliptic. To
: show how this apparent rotation works place your hand in
: front of your face, palm facing you. You may wish to draw a
: vertical line on it. Now try to imagine your hand is the
: moon orbiting the Earth at a 5 degree angle. If you move
: your hand so that it stays the same distance away from your
: face and in an orbit 5 degrees to the horizontal keeping
: the palm facing you at all times you will see that the
: vertical line on your palm has rotated. It has not rotated
: about an axis through the palm, but due to its orbit it has
: appeared to rotate.
: This is very difficult to explain without diagrams and not
: face-to-face, but this apparent clockwise rotation of the
: moon has been known about for years, and is why the
: astronomical community is not screaming their heads off
: trying to get our attention. It is why astronomical
: photographers at "Lunar Photo of the Day" or
: ObservingTheSky are not blogging this. It's why the Islamic
: community aren't screaming about it.
: Last year when this was being raised someone over at STA found
: a program called "mooncalc" that showed apparent
: clockwise rotation of the moon. I've downloaded it this
: morning and am having trouble unzipping it. But I'll bet
: that if you type in Aces coordinates in the Netherlands and
: the times at which the photos were taken the images
: calculated by mooncalc and the photos will match. I used
: mooncalc last year (on a different computer) and it was
: correct.
: Mooncalc available at
: http://www.ummah.org.uk/ildl/mooncalc.html
: (ignore the curry logins)
