Chuck

OK. Thanks. So the animation was just the same series of pictures played over and over again. Had the pictures been taken at some other time in the moon's orbit it may have coincided with opposition and apogee, but there is no cause and affect on the moon's established orbit, is that it?

Thanks.

Jim

 Chuck Hards <chuckhards@yahoo.com> wrote:

Jim, apogee and perigee have nothing to do with the
sun/earth configuration. The moon's orbit precesses,
that is, apogee and perigee progressively move around
the entire orbit.

C.
--- Jim Gibson wrote:
>
> Patrick
> Your wrote: Also does a nice job of showing apogee
> and perigee.
> If I am not mistaken the animation portrayed the
> moon at perigee when the sun was on the opposite
> side or when the face of the moon was dark, and at
> apogee when the sun was behind the earth and the
> face of the mood was fully lighted up.
> I am lacking some understanding here. I would have
> thought that the moon would have been pulled into
> perigee with the sun behind the earth and the moon
> face lit up.
> What am I missing.
> Jim Gibson
>
>
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