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Aussie Chris:

--- Quote from: Shuggy on August 29, 2007, 06:57:16 pm ---The dark part of a new moon is the shadow cast on the moon by the moon itself, if you like, but that might be a confusing way to describe it.

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No, actually this is the easiest part to get - thank you.


--- Quote ---This stuff really ought to be taught in school. It's fairly basic to understanding our place in the Universe.

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It was.  Like I said I didn't understand.  Most depictions of space are shown in 2D.  Until now I didn't understand that it was actually the moon that was casting a shadow on itself.  Sorry to have been so stupid as to not get a basic universal understanding.

Shuggy:

--- Quote from: Aussie Chris on August 31, 2007, 07:48:43 am ---Most depictions of space are shown in 2D.
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3D's not much better when they don't do it right, as they didn't on our TV. We saw a 3/4 moon with a splodge of red appearing about half way around. Ridiculous. I always found those diagrams hard to understand where they packed all the moons into one circle, and put the appearance from earth above each one. Nowadays it ought to be easy enough (with the right software) to create a 3D moving image that shows it very clearly. I have a copy of someone's avatar...

Now that takes a month. The eclipse would be over in a flash at that rate, during the moment when the moon is full.

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