Mauna Kea Shadow Play
Credit & Copyright: Alex Mukensnable
Posted on 03/01/2008 4:41:29 AM PST by sig226
Explanation: Just opposite the setting Sun, the already-eclipsed Moon rose over the Hawaiian Islands on February 20. A view near the 14,000 foot peak of volcanic Mauna Kea on the Big Island, a popular spot for astronomers, offered this remarkable play of shadows and sunlight. With snowy cinder cones in the foreground, the Moon lies within the shadow cast by the mountain -- a shadow extending across a lower cloud deck and on through Earth's dense atmosphere. As the lunar eclipse is drawing to a close, the curved shadow of the limb of planet Earth itself can also be traced across the Moon's surface, some 400,000 kilometers away.
That paragraph makes no sense at all...
Sure it does. In the sky you can see a tiny speck of moon on that mountain-like shadow, on that moon you can see an itsy-bitsy shadow of the earth. See it? Want my magnifying glass? LOL
Scientists are odd folk.
The sun is setting behind the photographer. It’s low enough for the mountain to cast a shadow in the sky. The partially eclipsed moon is visible in the shadow. Part of Mauna Kea is visible in the foreground.
No, the sun on the moon shows the sun should be @ 3:00 The shadow on the overcast shows the sun at the photographer’s 6. Which is it?
It is very odd to say the least...
Or, the sun could be at 12:00 low...
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