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Re: The Weather Channel's Moon is "Wrong"
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 28, 19:49 EDT
From: Frank Reed CT
Date: 2006 Jun 28, 19:49 EDT
Lu, you wrote: "Here's my guess (based on scanning dozens of "full moon" and "gibbous moon" images on Google Images): The Weather Channel's moon looks like it has been heavily Photoshopped. Specifically, the man-in-the-moon face is way off. Looking through dozens of moon images, the "eyes" of the man in the moon are at the visible edge of the moon, (and, in general, the man-in-the-moon's "face" is in the NE quadrant of a full moon), not in the center as in the WC image. Anywhere close, Frank?" You are so very close! You have found the critical clue, but there's no photoshopping involved. How then does the "eye" make its way to the center of the Moon's face? That circular eye, by the way, is Mare Crisium. The two small dark areas above it are Mare Marginis and Mare Smythii. Where is Mare Imbrium?? Here's another hint: I can tell you the exact date when this photo of the Moon was taken (and the GMT within an hour). -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars
