• Chozo
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    632 months ago

    Astrophysicist here: This is caused by the moon developing a crescent shape at each end of the path, resulting in a boomerang-like behavior where the rotational velocity of the moon causes it to return back to where it was thrown.

  • @[email protected]
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    382 months ago

    It’s beautiful, but unfortunately a fake. This is from a reddit comment for years ago:

    This is supposed to represent a lunar analemma, but it’s completely faked. And not just in the sense that it’s a composite, in the sense that the relative sizes and positions are completely made up.

    This is an actual analemma, with correct scaling:

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        No worries, I was just checking if it was by the guy that usually shares his setups. But then I found the other thread instead

  • teft
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    302 months ago

    This shape is called an analemma for anyone looking for more info.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 months ago

      No, it actually just appears back on the left side of the path again. No one can explain why, but it almost killed the Apollo guys. Had they been there one day later… Of course they had to go at an almost full moon. Not much to land on, otherwise.

  • BlueÆther
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    22 months ago

    You did something wrong, the moon appears upside down

    /s

    Great shots though