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I'm assuming that the photo was taken on February 9, 2005, but I could be wrong on that. Also, from anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere, the moon will appear to be to the left of the setting sun, and the right of the rising sun. How much to the left or the right depends on the time of the year.
Posted by Harold | Saturday 19 February 2005 12:22PM
I don't know, because I wasn't there. My mother said the photo was taken where it was, and on that day. And I assumed she saw the moon before it was setting.
Posted by Chloe | Saturday 19 February 2005 2:21PM
Oh, no, I wasn't saying that that was the "Green Flash" - the Green Flash is something totally different, visible as the very last droplet of sunset is twisted by the atmosphere and broken up so that you see a brief speck of green. I'm just saying that there might have been a green flash less than a minute after this photo was taken, which is something else that is also totally cool.
Oh, and I was just saying that maybe I was reading the tag wrong, that this photo was posted on the 9th, rather than taken on the 9th (which is what I originally assumed).
Posted by Harold | Saturday 19 February 2005 6:38PM
Yes, but you said it wasn't the moon - that it was an optical illusion. And you've given no evidence of that. And the only thing you mentioned was "green flash".
And I can find no evidence that there is any such optical illusion with the setting sun to cause that sort of thing. But the moon & sun did set together on that day, according to the newspaper...
And yes, the photo was taken, according to my mother, on February 9th. All dates in this photo album are when the photo was taken. (Unless it's a photo of a photo - or I had to guess because the photo is so old I don't know the exact date it was taken.)
But I'm not sure why it's important for your evidence that it was taken on the 9th, since that day, the sun & moon did set together - which seems to confirm that was indeed the moon, not an optical illusion.
Posted by Chloe | Sunday 20 February 2005 3:26AM
Hi, I'm no one in particular - I was just surfing around when I saw the photo.
It is definately NOT the moon - you'd never get the moon in that position, and no amount of earthshine would make it so bright that it competes with the sun.
Might I suggest that it is overwhelmingly likely that it is an artifact of the camera? A reflection from the inside of the camera or a flaw in the lens? I'm a photographer, and I see these kinds of things all the time, even with expensive lenses.
Posted by Paul | Monday 16 May 2005 7:59PM
It had been printed in the local newspaper there that the sun & the moon would be setting together, so the person who took the photo (my mother) was watching for it. But, she says she saw it before she took the photo - it was why she took the photo. So the camera lens theory really doesn't hold unless you believe my parents are lying about what they saw (which of course I don't believe that).
I'm not saying I know for sure that it's the Moon - I wasn't there. But the fact that it was reported in the newspaper, to alert people to watch for it, is what made me believe it.
Perhaps newspapers are not always 100% accurate. But why would they lie about this "earthshine"? And wouldn't there have been some kind of an upheaval if they did?
And don't even ask me if I believe my mother is lying, because of course I don't think she's lying.
Posted by Chloe | Monday 16 May 2005 11:18PM
