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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...The fact that the moon is tidally locked to the earth means that the earth is always more or less (ignoring libration) in the same position in the sky...

For a moon architect this is a neat feature. He could have Earth framed as part of the building design!

18 posted on 04/24/2024 5:46:54 AM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: Nateman
For a moon architect this is a neat feature. He could have Earth framed as part of the building design!

It would make an interesting skylight for buildings near the lunar equator and prime meridian, or bay window for buildings where the earth is nearer the horizon. The earth is nearly always overhead at lunar coordinates 0 N, 0 E.

This is what the Earth analemma would look like from the Apollo landing site, (0.6875 N, 23.4333 E) July 15 - August 13, 1969. I generated this with Starry Night Pro 8.0

41 posted on 04/24/2024 8:29:45 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead!)
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