The text explains the rare phenomenon, in which the azimuths of moonrise and moonset are more extreme. This situation allows us to see distant landscape features with the lunar disk beyond. Learn more about the lunar standstill and its frequency across the centuries. The changes in moonrise/moonset azimuths can give you a clue of how some Megalithic constructions have been set and how the Moon’s path across the sky would have looked like thousands of years before. Moreover, the declination of the Moon isn’t the same. It changes significantly because of the parallax.
A “strange effect” at solar eclipses below the horizon
There is a fascinating, albeit unusual, eclipse phenomenon that occurs on the daylight side of the Earth. Moreover, this event applies to occultations of stars, although it’s a topic for another occasion. It refers to the moment of “earliest maximum eclipse” and “latest maximum eclipse”, which don’t occur precisely in the place where the edge … Read more
