Moon confusion
#00003051
Shadows, reflections and light ephemera
About
She sat in the car looking up. She’d only had a few drinks, but she was having trouble making sense of what she saw.
Two moons? Not possible, surely.
It wasn’t as if she was on Saturn with its 62 moons orbiting in the enormous magnetosphere of electrically-charged particles and solar winds.
She tried to think: two moons in different phases must mean two different light sources or suns.
Oh dear. This climate crisis was a lot worse than she’d thought.
When, where, what
14/04/2019 at 02:26 pm
Lake Monster Brewing, St Paul, Minneapolis, USA
Grain hopper with illuminated moon.
Significance
- Moonrise
- 2019-07-12 05:25:00 at 72°
- Moonset
- 2019-07-11 18:50:00 at 290°
- Distance
- 364,581 km
- Illumination
- 85.1%
