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Topic started on 1-2-2012 @ 10:17 PM by Puck 22
So today I was at the Veteran's Dept. with a friend. We arrived at 1:45 P.M. I know this as I was aware I was 15 minutes early for my two o'clock appointment.
Early afternoon and I looked up and saw the moon but it did not seem right to me so I asked the friend who was with me if the moon looked normal to him. He made a fuss that the moon was visible in the daytime but I knew this was no big deal and ignored that. Other than the timing though he saw nothing wrong with it.
I am wondering if I am losing it now because it is 10:12 P.M. It is very dark outside and the moon is hanging there right in the middle of the sky.
As far as I know the moon does not work like that.
In the less than 7 hours between the two sightings the moon should have moved about 4-5 degrees in the sky. It could not have possibly have moved from the day side of the planet to the night side.
I considered the following possibilities
1. I am hallucinating but my friend confirms sighting the moon on both occasions. He still doesn't understand what I am upset about though as the moon is 'still in the same place' straight up in the middle of the sky!!!
2. My grasp of simple astronomy is not as good as I thought it was.
3. Astronomy as it is generally taught/understood is not correct.
4. One of the objects I observed was not the moon.

I called my friend and had him go outside and confirm the moon is indeed hanging there in the middle of the sky tonight. I am not sure how I am going to feel if I observe it there again tomorrow afternoon. Do I smile and say 'hey, I get to see an anomaly first hand' or do I panic and say 'there is a large unknown astronomical body in close proximity to the earth and no one else seems to have noticed'

Could someone please tell me that I am missing something. Tell me that of course you can see the moon in the day sky and the night sky on the same day because.......
I honestly won't mind if someone suggests I am having a 'senior moment' and my mind has temporarily ceased to function rationally and/or my I.Q. has dropped 80 points and so I forgot/overlooked some simple obvious fact.

So am I losing it or is something very very wrong with this picture or am I simply overlooking some obvious answer? Make me feel silly now. I promise I won't mind.


reply posted on 1-2-2012 @ 11:06 PM by Deebz
reply to post by Trublbrwing



Whether 'something' is wrong with the entire earth, moon, etc... may or may not be, but that isn't the point. The point is it is perfectly natural to see the moon during the day and well into the night.
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