Leaving the Zen Center after a long day on Saturday evening, waxing crescent moon shining in the south.
I remembered that same crescent moon from January.
It seems so long ago and far away. I just noticed this, the shape of the moon is the same in both photos, but the positioning is different. Google says that the moon's orbit is along the equator. In the southern hemisphere, people see the crescent moon "upside down" so the side that is shining seems the opposite from the northern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the first quarter looks like a growing D, and in the southern hemisphere it looks like a C. In the last quarter the moon looks like a C in the northern hemisphere, and a D in the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the sunlit part of the moon moves from right to left, in the southern hemisphere it moves from left to right. I didn't know any of that!
I remembered that same crescent moon from January.
It seems so long ago and far away. I just noticed this, the shape of the moon is the same in both photos, but the positioning is different. Google says that the moon's orbit is along the equator. In the southern hemisphere, people see the crescent moon "upside down" so the side that is shining seems the opposite from the northern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the first quarter looks like a growing D, and in the southern hemisphere it looks like a C. In the last quarter the moon looks like a C in the northern hemisphere, and a D in the southern hemisphere. In the northern hemisphere, the sunlit part of the moon moves from right to left, in the southern hemisphere it moves from left to right. I didn't know any of that!
Huh! Cool juxtaposition with the two photos!
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