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To: CheshireTheCat

An eclipse doesn’t change the cycle of the lunar month. The full moon always rises right around sunset give or take several minutes. The full moon is visible throughout the night and sets right around sunrise the next day. This is true every lunar month throughout the year.

So why I’m saying the full moon in the Mt Rushmore photo is in the wrong place is because it appears in the western sky and it’s daylight. Mt. Rushmore faces east so when you are looking at it, as in the photo, you are looking to the west. The full moon never appears in the western sky during daylight hours since it sets at sunrise. Hope that helps.


631 posted on 07/01/2020 5:21:30 PM PDT by TrueFact (It's always darkest right before the dawn.)
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To: TrueFact

I’m thinking the full moon in that image with Mt. Rushmore was added not to be specific of its location but just to point out that it IS a full moon. graphic design would not have alowed the picture to work if it was in the correct location.


636 posted on 07/01/2020 5:24:51 PM PDT by Ymani Cricket ("Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it." ~Omar Bradley)
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To: TrueFact

But what is the time of day in the George cover?

Do we know that?

Sure, it is daylight. But is it noon, 3pm, or 6am? What is the time of year?

Why wouldn’t a full moon, when it sets, be visible in the west in the summer just after dawn?


743 posted on 07/01/2020 8:43:39 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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