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The moon is presently approaching its last quarter, but from my place in the western USA, the moon has been below the horizon for a few hours already so I can't see it. My last observation was earlier in the day when the moon was visible in the sky, and so was the sun. I checked the angle between the sun and moon just after sunrise, later in the morning, and then just before noon as the moon was getting close to the western horizon.
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What I found really noteworthy was the angle of repose of the moon throughout this series of observations, and the same thing can be seen tomorrow early in the day anywhere on earth there is a clear sky.
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You see, what God has to show us when we look into the sky isn't the musings of dreamers who make their wandering imaginations the authors of pure fantasy (like your ancient Hebrew gibberish, above). When man thinks he knows something and proceeds to draw conclusions based on incomprehension of God's revelation, you see how wrong he can be by looking at those silly cartoons.
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When we look into the sky today, we can see a sun and a moon that tell us a lot about the real world if we are willing to actually notice what there is to see before our eyes.
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With the sun rising in the east this morning, the moon's angle of repose was rotated clockwise about 10 degrees from the vertical. Another way of saying that is that the moon's bright side facing the sun was tilted upward, toward a place high in the eastern sky that appeared to be much higher than where the sun is found. .
If the moon were very close to the earth, as the flat-earthers claim, the angle of repose of the moon would have been exactly vertical, that is, with the straight part of the quarter moon going up and down, vertically, since the sun would be also close to the earth but even closer to the moon, since our line of sight from earth to sun is the hypotenuse of the triangle and that's the longest side, consequently the greatest distance.
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There are (at least) two big problems with that proposed set of locations for the sun and moon. One is, the angle of repose was not straight up and down with the moon's light side facing a nearby sun. The bright side of the moon was angled upward toward a sun that is just as high in the sky from the moon's point of view as it is from our point of view on the earth. In other words, the astronomical direction we look toward the sun from earth is the very same astronomical direction we would look toward the sun if we were on the moon. That means the sun is SO FAR AWAY from us that it makes no difference whether our point of view is anywhere on the earth or on the moon, the sun is still found in the very same place in the distant sky in either case, our direction of observation having the same astronomical direction from either position.
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Or so it would seem at first glance.
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The other big problem with proposing the sun and moon are nearby the earth (set off by a few thousand miles) is that regardless of where we are on the earth, we see the same phases of the moon at any moment of time. In California the moon reaches its last quarter at 5:35 pm this afternoon (even though the moon is not visible in California at that time), and the same quarter moon event is occurring everywhere else on earth at the same minute, 5:35 pm our time (12:35 am UTC). Someone in Australia could look up in the sky in the next hour and observe the moon reaching its last quarter, live, real time, as it happens. For them, the last quarter occurs at 10:35 am, while the moon is still visible in the sky.
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If the earth were "flat," the measured angle between the sun and moon if both were only a few thousand miles away and as the moon approaches its quarter phase would be something like 30 or maybe 40 degrees, and depending on where one is located on earth, the angle would be different. But as a matter of fact, when we observe what God has given us to see in the sky, we find the angle between the sun and moon to be greater than 90 degrees as the moon approaches its last quarter, and it is the SAME angle regardless of where we are standing on the earth when we take the measurement.
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When I first checked this morning, I found the angle to be 94 degrees. Later it gradually become 93 degrees, and that was just before the moon set in the western sky at 11:44 am. I had a range of mountains in the way so I had to check by 11:00 if I wanted to still see the moon before it went behind the mountains. But I could have gone to the top of the mountains just to see the moon for another 44 minutes. I've done that in the past.
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So over the course of several hours, the angle between the sun and moon reduced at least one degree, and probably more like two degrees. The sun moves across the sky faster than the moon, although their precise angular speed varies from month to month since their orbits are not circular but somewhat elliptical. If the sun happens to be moving faster one day and the moon slower, the change of angle between the sun and moon as observed from earth will be more rapid on that day compared to another day when the moon is moving faster and the sun is moving slower, relatively speaking. But the range of difference is pretty small and we can give an approximate speed that will apply to any day, year after year.
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Tomorrow morning I might be able to check this angle again, between the sun and moon. By checking how many hours have elapsed after 5:35 pm today, I will be able to estimate what the angle between the sun and moon was when the moon reached its last quarter.
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