LUNAR LIBRATION

[Jamie]

LUNAR LIBRATION: Did you see this weekend's full Moon? It was unique. Why? Because no two full Moons are exactly alike. To prove it, Laurent Laveder of Quimper, Bretagne, France photographed the last 12 full Moons and stitched the pictures together to make this movie:

The Moon swells and shrinks, it rocks back and forth and up and down. This is a result of the Moon's motion around its tilted, elliptical orbit. Each full Moon occurs at a different point in that orbit, and so we see it from a slightly different distance and angle. The rocking motions are called libration; because of them we can see 59% of the Moon's surface rather than the 50% you might have learned in school.

Courtesy of Space Weather.com

[daz]

Great find Jamie

[geppetto]

Thats interesting 8)

Its set me off now to image some of the not normally seen objects

[OXO]

Good find Jamie, Astronomers have used this too peek at the craters on the otter edge of the dark side of the Moon when Libration is at it's full extent

James

[Naz]

Nice one Jamie, good find

naz

[FLO]

Good find Jamie 8)

PS: How did you post the animation :scratch:

[lunator]

Jamie

excellent find.

Thats a fantastic demonstration of libration

[Jamie]

Good find Jamie 8)

PS: How did you post the animation :scratch:

This only works from some not all websites.

Hover the cursor over the desired image-

Right click on it-

Go to properties-

Copy the url-

Paste the copied url to your post-

Highlight the url in your post-

Go to insert image in the above tool bar and click.

All done......

[Kain]

I saw this on SW, I couldn't help but think it looked freaky..

Its like swinging an orange about lol!

Kain

[FLO]

Thanks Jamie

[CELESCOPE]

excellent Jamie , i do like that , amazing images ,

Rog

[moondog]

Jamie

Good animation of the moon's rock n'roll!

Didn't Patrick Moore report the first sighting of the Eastern Sea - on the far side of the moon - using libration?

MD

[OXO]

Didn't Patrick Moore report the first sighting of the Eastern Sea - on the far side of the moon - using libration?

Yes that correct MD

[The Warthog]

Great animation! My head does that sometimes when I've got enough soccth in me. Srory, I manet stocch, I maen scocth, oh to hlel wtih it... :drunken: