NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Longitude by Sunset
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 May 6, 21:07 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2012 May 6, 21:07 -0400
I tried "moonset over sea" and "...over ocean" on Google, and found one good movie from a space station, and two photos which seem completely unrealistic, and I suppose they are taylored. APOD also does not give any reasonable picture. Is it indeed true that one cannot see it??? Alex. On Sun, 6 May 2012, Greg Rudzinski wrote: > > Gary, > > The 14th of May looks good as well. I'll give it a go. > > Greg Rudzinski > > [NavList] Re: Longitude by Sunset > From: Gary LaPook > Date: 6 May 2012 13:00 > Wait til May 15th when the Moon will set north of straight west so you will have a clear horizon north of the islands. > > gl > > --- On Sun, 5/6/12, Greg Rudzinski <gregrudzinski---com> wrote: > > From: Greg Rudzinski <gregrudzinski---com> > Subject: [NavList] Re: Longitude by Sunset > To: NavList---org > Date: Sunday, May 6, 2012, 12:27 PM > > Alex, > > Would it be possible to compare an observation of the Moon at 2 * then follow with an observation of the Sun at 2* from the same location and height of eye to perform the time lunar you are suggesting ? Unfortunately I can't perform this experiment for a true sunset/moonset from my location because there are islands in the way :( > > Greg Rudzinski > > [NavList] Re: Longitude by Sunset > From: Alexandre Eremenko > Date: 6 May 2012 12:45 > Marcel, > >> These few observations were at night. The (full) moon just gradually faded >> out when approaching the horizon. > > Perhaps there were clouds? > I am trying to recollect, but cannot remember any instance > that I've seen a moonset over the sea:-( > >> I'm still >> interested to know better under which conditions a moon set > > Me too. > > Alex > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > NavList message boards and member settings: www.fer3.com/NavList > Members may optionally receive posts by email. > To cancel email delivery, send a message to NoMail[at]fer3.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=119426 > > >