QOTD: What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Stephanie, do you see the steady glow at the center of the Earth in that NASA footage? What is causing it? When the Moon passes between the source of that light and the planet, what would you imagine would happen? Your image of the Solar eclipse looks to be exactly what I would imagine to be taking place as the Moon makes it’s transit across the sunlit face of the Earth, yet it doesn’t. I’m sure someone is going to explain it to me, but using the two things I have to work with, the NASA footage and my eyes, I can’t come up with any plausible explanation for why it wouldn’t.

Here is a NASA illustration of where the satellite is located in relation to the Moon, the Sun and Earth. It seems pretty self explanatory, yet for some reason, the expected phenomenon does not take place.

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Agreed, it looks dodgy but I think it probably represents the real deal.
At first blush I would have expected to see The Moon rotate slightly, since our perspective is constant here, unlike our view from earth. But doing some quick and dirty maths, I figure we’re seeing The Moon travel approx. 2 degrees (of its 360 degree orbit) or so. That would be a barely discernible 1/180th of a revolution.

“Maybe, but I am asking reasonable questions.”

You really aren’t.

-TPC

So NASA places a satellite between the Sun and the Moon, takes images of it passing directly above the Earth- you can see the sunshine on the surface of the Earth, but it’s unreasonable to ask why it doesn’t cast a shadow?

You lost me.

Again, its a matter of perspective. I am not saying the video is definitely “real”–and I must use quotes, because, necessarily it would be a digital image (a bunch of ones and zeros) transmit over a million miles of free space then reassembled in a way to make visual sense to our eyes–but this would HAVE to have been taken during a solar eclipse–but clearly one that could only be seen by a few islands in the South Pacific. And the Moon does cast a shadow on the earth. It is just smaller than the Moon itself due tor perspective. A camera can make a beetle look bigger than a barn with the proper perspective. The moon is so much closer to the satellite than the earth and at 93 million miles the sun is a point source of light. The shadow the moon casts is much smaller than the moon itself. Perspective.

“It’s not a glow, it’s a shade.”

The circular area that is brighter than any other spot for the entire duration of that animation in the center of the globe is not a glow, it’s a shade?

I have no idea what you mean.

HSF – The moon, sun, and Earth aren’t all orbiting on the same plane, in a straight line. The Moon’s axis is tilted.

Due to this tilt, there are only a couple of distinct points in the moon’s orbit (known as nodes) where the moon eclipses (obstructs) the Earth’s view of the sun, and generates a shadow on the surface of our planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_node

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My Dear Ms Shepherd: I said: “I forgot to say the moon should be bright as a headlight but it looks like it is in a shadow.” You said:”Because the image shows the dark side of the moon. The entire point of the images”. ….. In that video, the earth is fully lit and the side of the moon facing the sun (the “Dark Side”) should be fully lit too. In the video, the side of the moon that is facing the earth would be dark. The term “Dark Side of the Moon” does not refer to it’s brilliance/darkness (which depends on whether the “Dark Side” faces the sun and is bright as in the video or 14 days later when the “Dark Side” is facing away from he sun and is dark) but rather to the fact that it is always unseen from earth (dark = mysterious, unknown).

If the pic was taken in July (not released) then the tilt should be toward the the sun. also the moon appears to travel in a straight line, I am thinking that the moon should look like it is growing as it passes directly in front of the camera.

HSF- That glowing area in the center among other things is why I said it looked like a bad animation as this would not make sense.

Indentured Servant is the in-house astronomy expert at TBP. He is usually quick to fall for any smoke and mirrors TPTB dish out but I would still like to hear his opinion.

“I fucking quit this thread.”

No, wait Steph. You didn’t even mention my comment yet. Mine was just way more retarded than any of the ones you’re quittin over.

“I swear i saw a Death Ray with a sign that said “Destroy Earth 25 Cents ” .”

Thank you, Buckhed. I’m glad you mentioned it first because I didn’t want to say anything. You know how they get.

Maggie, you are welcome for the antarctica links. Just curious did you get around to digging up rabbit books/info. I may have missed it.

Stephanie & Rob seem to have it. No moon’s shadow on earth is not an issue. The alignment was different by a tiny amount which was enough for the moon to ‘eclipse’ the earth from the satellites point of view but not the suns’. The moon would not appear to rotate through this small arc as it passed in front of the earth even as the earth appears to rotate a lot. No stars and a ‘bright spot’ on the earth are all photographic artifacts. Further, at these relative distances and sizes of the objects, the earth should appear ~2.75 times the moon’s diameter…and best I can measure on the picture, it is. No reason for NASA to fake it anyway.

“No moon’s shadow on Earth is not an issue”
No stars and a “bright spot” on the Earth are all photographic artifacts.
NO reason for NASA to fake it. ______allen

Case closed , it’s all good. allen explained it all………not.

When a website like this that attracts intelligent thinking people has a question like this posed and the comment section disintegrates into a lot of political and religious infighting how can anyone doubt there is going to be a helluva storm brewing. I suspect it will happen suddenly and most won’t be prepared. I’m never in the most category on anything.