Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Moon Tuesday 8th October 2019

20 new Saturn moons were discovered this week and 17 are going in the 'wrong' direction!

They are all roughly 3 miles in diameter whereas our Moon is around 3000 miles. If I drew a line on this picture to show where the moon is only 3 miles diameter it would be virtualy on the pole!

You could walk around the equator of one of the new moons in just over 3 hours! (If it was flat...) To do the same on our Moon would take over 130 days!

Time 18:55.
Distance 251,141 miles.
Waxing gibbous phase.
145 degrees SE compass point (azimuth).
Altitude 11.2 degrees.


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