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SupremePandaLord OP t1_ivug6iq wrote

Reply to comment by ArtDSellers in Lunar Eclipse at Lone Pine, California, USA [OC][3948x5921] by SupremePandaLord

Not sure if this is what you're talking about...

I was tracking the moon facing the southwest when the eclipse started, and it continued to move towards the west. So in the picture, the mountains on the left are southwest, and on the right are more cardinal west.

So yes, the moon moves east to west, like you said. But in the context of this picture, east is to our left (out of frame) and west is to our right. I think we are talking about the same thing 🙂

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ArtDSellers t1_ivus5q0 wrote

Haha it's hard to put words to what I'm thinking. So as the moon moves from west to east (talking proper motion against the background, not the motion you notice as the Earth rotates), it encounters the circular shadow of the earth. I was thinkin' it'd be interesting to rearrange the pictures to kind of portray the Earth's shadow in the sky, whereas this arrangement kind of shows up more as the shadow moving over the moon. Some other folks have been posting some interesting arrangement of eclipse pictures that got me to thinking is all.

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SupremePandaLord OP t1_ivuuk5b wrote

Ahhh gotcha! That would actually be really cool. Thanks for planting the seed in my head

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