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Title: One for me
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 31, 2011, 10:05:12 AM: on-line orrery (http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/orrery_2006.swf)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:09:11 AM: orrery ::)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Barman on January 31, 2011, 10:10:51 AM: I feel dizzy... (https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freesmileys.org%2Fsmileys%2Fsmiley-confused009.gif&hash=1d8148bd6326a09f516ecbef4ed3da8ceb838ef3) (http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys.php)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:11:41 AM: No wonder. We live in it!
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Uncle Mort on January 31, 2011, 10:13:14 AM: Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:09:11 AM
orrery ::)

ta happy088

good though?
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:14:33 AM: BM has had to go for a lie down noooo:
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Miss Demeanour on January 31, 2011, 10:19:46 AM: Nice colours lol:
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:24:05 AM: You are Tipsy's eldest and I claim my £5 razz:
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 31, 2011, 12:55:54 PM: Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2011, 10:24:05 AM
You are Tipsy's eldest and I claim my £5 razz:

Did she click on Uranus?
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on January 31, 2011, 12:58:38 PM: Oh Darwin noooo:
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Darwins Selection on January 31, 2011, 01:12:01 PM: Quote from: Nick on January 31, 2011, 12:58:38 PM
Oh Darwin noooo:

Wot?

Anyway, it is very clever, thanks Mort.

Why does the shadow on the Moon not tally with the 'moon phase' though?
It looks a bit random.
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 01, 2011, 07:10:51 AM: The shadow and phase do correspond with each other. Run it slowly and imagine you're on the point on the Earth directly below the Moon looking up. The phase shown is what you would see. You only see the portion of the Moon's surface that is lit from your viewpoint even though half the Moon is always lit by the Sun.
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Nick on February 01, 2011, 08:57:53 AM: Just what I was going to say angel1
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 01, 2011, 10:50:04 AM: Quote from: Uncle Mort on February 01, 2011, 07:10:51 AM
The shadow and phase do correspond with each other. Run it slowly and imagine you're on the point on the Earth directly below the Moon looking up. The phase shown is what you would see. You only see the portion of the Moon's surface that is lit from your viewpoint even though half the Moon is always lit by the Sun.

But on the two full moon sections here, the little moon on the left is shadowed but the one on the right isn't?

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs4.postimage.org%2F23vay1jdw%2Fmoon1_2.jpg&hash=50d8d0e4c70abccef2fe8a24b1ed6993f8eef7dc) (http://postimage.org/image/23vay1jdw/)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 01, 2011, 04:06:23 PM: True rubschin:

It looks like you've taken images at full moon in May and June 2011. I've run the same but my little moon stayed in half shadow. confused:
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Barman on February 01, 2011, 04:09:05 PM: Darwin broke it... ::)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Darwins Selection on February 01, 2011, 04:23:53 PM: shrugs:

Just commenting on what I saw like.
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Barman on February 01, 2011, 04:26:07 PM: Quote from: Darwins Selection on February 01, 2011, 04:23:53 PM
shrugs:

Just commenting on what I saw like.

Of course... ::)
Title: Re: One for me
Post by: Uncle Mort on February 01, 2011, 04:26:26 PM: Fair enough DS.

"Set phasers to stun" I say. ;)