The Moon (Part 2)

Ron Webb wrote: How do you know what the "correct" position is for a particular day/time?� The moon is low near the horizon every night around moonrise/set (obviously), not just during Ramadan.� If you've never seen it, then I guess you haven't been looking.� Perhaps you just don't pay much attention to the moon throughout the rest of the year.

That's the whole point you dope. Now the moon is at it's correct position around that time that I go to the Corniche. It was very low over the horizon those two particular nights when it lost it's light and disappeared.

If you look at the domed building in the centre of the pic (which is the Sharjah court house) you will see that the moon is at its right hand side The moon was only there those two particular nights.

For the past week after the miracle the moon is very high over to the left of the court house, that is it's correct position (where it should be). The moon does not dilly dally across the sky but moves very very slowly throughout the night on it's course.

Ron Webb wrote: ]You have posted a couple of dozen pictures.� I have no idea which ones you think are "correct" and which are "miracles".� They all look perfectly normal to me.

The first two nights are incorrect.

On the evening of June 24, the moon set at approx. 12:25 a.m. (technically the morning of the 25th), at an azimuth of about 265 degrees (estimated from the Heavens Above sky charts).

At the same time two days later on the evening of June 26, it was at azimuth 250 degrees and still more than ten degrees above the horizon.  It set more than an hour later at 1:35 a.m. (technically the 27th), at about azimuth 260 degrees.

The "correct" position of the moon on the evening of the 26th is thus about fifteen degrees south of what it would have been at the same time on the 24th, and it is quite a bit higher in the sky as well.  That is consistent with your photos as far as I can tell.  It is also consistent with your observation that the moon is quite a bit dimmer as it approaches the horizon.

You are an excellent observer, Abu Loren.  If only you wouldn't allow mysticism to cloud your interpretations.

[edited to fix my am./pm. error. ]


Edited by Ron Webb - 01 July 2015 at 2:07pm

You people still do not understand.

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Edited by airmano - 03 July 2015 at 1:37am