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Re: Seeing Moon rising an setting ?
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Feb 19, 11:29 +0200
From: Marcel Tschudin
Date: 2010 Feb 19, 11:29 +0200
Thank you, Jeremy, for mentioning your experience. From what you say it seems indeed not to be possible to see the moon at the horizon under "normal" atmospheric conditions except under an exceptionally clear sky. You wrote "seeing the actual limb on the horizon at sea is quite a bit more rare than observing the sun rise or set" and "I have seen the moon rise twice in the last three years". In order to get a better feeling on how rare: Resulted the two observations just by "accidental" noticing that an amplitude observation would be possible or did you over the three years regularly look out whether it would be possible to take such an observation? Marcel
