HAs anyone looked at the moon lately

The other night i was looking at the moon through my telescope- the moon wass at its lowest and brightest point in the cycle- i was looking at it and noticed something strange, around the outside of the moon was a strange kind of fuzz or like a heat wave around it- like when you see heat waves on the road, i tried taking pictures of it but i could not get a clear full shot but i shall try again tonight to study the surface, but id suchjest looking at the moon in real time and watch carefuly, it was a very clear night as it was very cool and windy but i dont know if this is a annomily or the wind was effecting it? someone please help?

It s a halo around the moon....


Nothing new, nothing groundbreaking.... you can sleep well tonight.

Yep the moon looks like it is changing to me too.

I just got a new telescope and can see some awesome stuff.

It seems to me the moon moves fast when viewing through a telescope.

Missed last nights mighty full moon (biggest in so many years) due to overcast skies. Bummer. Some members have posted some great images though.

I think it is rusting, and some of them 'craters' look mighty suspicious. The blur that looks like heat waves is it moving I think, or the glow.

So anyway, you do know the moon was a craft many thousands of years ago, and was parked in our orbit by the ETs that drove it here. Also our 'moon' is the only celestial body that moves the way it does in the Earths orbit, which science has yet to explain properly.

I have yet to see any craft or anything that may arise from it. But if I do, I'll let you know.

wZn

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So anyway, you do know the moon was a craft many thousands of years ago, and was parked in our orbit by the ETs that drove it here.

This is NOT fact and is only opinion and should be in Skunk Works not here.

To the OP :

The familiar 22° halo around the Sun or Moon occurs because of refraction in tiny hexagonal ice crystals in the air.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu...

Pretty huh?!



[edit on 12/13/2008 by greeneyedleo]

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Trying to 'prove' this to people like you is a waste of both our time. The whole believing in Christmas thing seals the deal.

Still if you'd like to explain the way in how the moon(craft) orbits our planet the way it does, I'd love to hear it.

Cheerio

wZn

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the moon is the closest to the earth. i think the 12th was actually the closest. that is why it is so bright. oh and it hasnt been like this in 15 years or so. i cant really remember everything exactly cause i just heard it on the radio. but that is the jist of it.


oh found a link:

science.nasa.gov...

[edit on 13-12-2008 by booshk]

Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
Also our 'moon' is the only celestial body that moves the way it does in the Earths orbit, which science has yet to explain properly.

The moon is hardly the only thing in the solar system that is tidally locked. MOST moons are.

Most significant moons in the Solar System are tidally locked with their primaries, since they orbit very closely and tidal force increases rapidly (as a cubic) with decreasing distance. Notable exceptions are the irregular outer satellites of the gas giant planets, which orbit much further away than the large well-known moons.

Pluto and Charon are an extreme example of a tidal lock. Charon is a relatively large moon in comparison to its primary and also has a very close orbit. This has made Pluto also tidally locked to Charon. In effect, these two celestial bodies revolve around each other (their mass center lies outside of Pluto) as if joined with a rod connecting two opposite points on their surfaces.

The tidal locking situation for asteroid moons is largely unknown, but closely-orbiting binaries are expected to be tidally locked, as well as contact binaries.

en.wikipedia.org...

Thus, the fact that the rotational period of the Moon and the orbital period of the Earth-Moon system are of the same length is not an accident. Presumably this was not always true, but over billions of years the tidal coupling of the Earth and the Moon has led to this synchronization. In the case of the Earth-Moon system the synchronization is not yet complete. The Earth is slowly decreasing its rotational period and eventually the Earth and Moon will have exactly the same rotational period, and these will also exactly equal the orbital period. At the same time, the separation between the Earth and Moon will slowly increase in just such a way as to conserve angular momentum for the entire system.
Thus, billions of years from now the Earth will always keep the same face turned toward the Moon, just as the Moon already always keeps the same face turned toward the Earth. We will encounter other examples of such tidal locking in other pairs of objects in the Solar System.

csep10.phys.utk.edu...

> What determines which planets or moons will become tidally locked, and which
>will have their own rotation?

Well, the fast answer is that they will *all* become tidally locked
eventually. It just takes a long time in the less favorable cases.

A non-locked rotating body orbiting another body always experiences some
tidal drag, which tries to bring its rotation rate into lock with the
orbit. Smaller and more rigid bodies experience less drag, and drag drops
off very sharply with distance. (Mercury is in a 3:2 lock, rather than
usual 1:1 lock, with the Sun because its orbit is somewhat elliptical and
the tidal drag is much stronger at perihelion than over most of the rest
of the orbit.) So in general, large soft objects in close orbits go into
lock very quickly, and small hard ones in distant orbits take a very long
time to be affected noticeably.

In our solar system... All the major moons are locked to their planets,
as are the small close ones; some small distant ones are not. Only one
small planet with a large close moon (Pluto) is locked to its moon,
although Earth, with a large but fairly distant moon, is measurably
working on it. Mercury is locked to the Sun, Venus is *almost* locked
(although the history of its rotation is unclear and this might be a
coincidence), but nothing farther out shows any sign of solar lock.

yarchive.net...



[edit on 12/13/2008 by Zaphod58]

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Nice try, but I am talking about how the moon(craft) rotates. We only see one side of the moon during its rotation.

Why is it so?

wZn

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Do I need to spell it out for you? What do you think Tidal Locking IS????

But just for you:

Tidal Lock refers to the condition in which an object has the same rotational period as its orbital period. As a result, the object always shows the same face towards its orbital center. The cause of tidal lock is tidal drag or tidal acceleration, which is a force created in an object spinning at a different rate from its orbital rate due to the bulge (tidal bulge) which forms in the surface of the object due to the gravitational pull of the orbital center.

In an object where the rate of rotation is different than the orbital period, the tidal bulge moves across the planets surface. The tidal drag results from mechanical resistance in the the surface material as it is being distorted to form the bulge and later as the bulge collapses. The energy which supplies the force necessary to overcome the surface's mechanical resistance comes from the rotational energy of the orbiting object itself.

Over an extended period of time, the tidal drag will cause the orbitting object to slow its rotation period until the tidal bulge of the orbitting object becomes stationary relative to the object's surface.

www.lunarpedia.org...

Tidal Lock means that we only see one side. It's the NORMAL condition between a planet and moon.

Dont forget folks that when your looking at the Moon from an Earthly bound telescope, your also looking through the Earth's atmosphere and since heat rises, even on cold winter days, its much warmer down here than up in the ionosphere and stratosphere. This heat makes stars and the edge of the Moon "haze" or seem to twinkle like the stars do. The atmosphere also as an optical effect on your telescope's focusing. It might "look" like it is in focus, but due to the fluctuating heat transients of the atmosphere, the focus is actually changing very slightly all the time, again which would give the effect of "halowing"



Cheers!!!!

Originally posted by juggaloco i was looking at it and noticed something strange, around the outside of the moon was a strange kind of fuzz or like a heat wave around it-

Since the Moon is really just a HOLOGRAM, most likely the projector got a little out of focus... I wouldn't worry... they will have it fixed soon

That's why you always just see one side... making a rotating holographic projection was out of the budget so they went with a 'still shot'

And don't mind the debunkers, they always come up with silly stuff like 'halos' or 'ice crystals'






... meh... just bored...



[edit on 13-12-2008 by zorgon]

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I would like for you to explain how the moon orbits the Earth since you're apparently so smart.

I have particular questions for such a genius as yourself. How many inches does the moon's rotation take it out of orbit and what in the moon makes up for that loss of Orbit and keeps it in our orbit?

Bet you can't get those answers from your satanic movie!!! Which by the way has been debunked by non believing Historians as BUNK!

Originally posted by theindependentjournalWhich by the way has been debunked by non believing Historians as BUNK!

That is a really funny statement "debunked by non believing Historians"

Originally posted by zorgon
Since the Moon is really just a HOLOGRAM, most likely the projector got a little out of focus... I wouldn't worry... they will have it fixed soon

That's why you always just see one side... making a rotating holographic projection was out of the budget so they went with a 'still shot'

And don't mind the debunkers, they always come up with silly stuff like 'halos' or 'ice crystals'

... meh... just bored...



[edit on 13-12-2008 by zorgon]

Now Now Zorgon...leave Santa's little red mushrooms alone!!!

I think India might want a word with you..................just sayn'

Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow
Trying to 'prove' this to people like you is a waste of both our time. The whole believing in Christmas thing seals the deal.

Now be nice... she's a lot closer to space than you'll ever be And we already proved Santa is Real and I will have his Secret Base revealed tonight...
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Still if you'd like to explain the way in how the moon(craft) orbits our planet the way it does, I'd love to hear it.

Well shoot... THAT is easy... IF as you say, its a SHIP, then naturally it would have guidance controls that keep it precisely rotating once for ever revolution around the Earth... Simple attitude controls are on all our ships. It would only make sense that it would be on one so big...

But that's a moot point as its a hologram. That's why the astronauts couldn't answer the question.. "What did it FEEL like to have been on the Moon"

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Thanx mate- atleast u dont get on here and argue like some people- i have heard the theory on the whole moon being a craft but also i have heard it was a place for ET mining operations- if you have a realy good tellescope mate you should send me some pictures as my one is a #y cheap ass one lmao id gather ur in australia to cuz last night we got overcast skies here to i was so pissed about it cuz i was trying to get a couple good photos to analyse it >.

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WTF!? thats the most crazy theory i have heard yet lol..

Originally posted by juggaloco
reply to post by greeneyedleo

 

WTF!? thats the most crazy theory i have heard yet lol..

Huh? What is the most crazy theory? Please explain.

Science explanation verse some dude's opinion that the Moon is a ship parked in space by Ets. ?? OK. Maybe the halo is a spotlight to the newest ET club opening? Is that a better theory?



[edit on 12/13/2008 by greeneyedleo]

Originally posted by watchZEITGEISTnow

I think it is rusting, and some of them 'craters' look mighty suspicious. The blur that looks like heat waves is it moving I think, or the glow.

How does something rust in the vacuum of space?

Here, some more reading for you

www.space.com...

en.wikipedia.org...(optical_phenomenon)

www.farmersalmanac.com...

www.usatoday.com...