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another thought.......WE see the moon go through its phases........BUT IF we were on the moon, on the side facing earth we would see the earth go through similar phases, BUT it would never set!!

Bob

Thankyou Stevie, theres alot more questions i want to ask, i may bore you to tears! lol but for now, ,,, I have been out most nights recently and watched the stars and the moon,,, but like i said ill pop up with a question later when you least expect pmsl.
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P.S thankyou :)

Hi Crunchy. Yes, the sun & moon cover more or less the same part of the sky. So at the equator, the sun shines from directly above whilst at the poles, its always very close to the horizon.

Also the tilt of the earth has to be taken into consideration, as this accounts for the seasons we have. Also the moons orbit around the earth is at an angle relative to the sun.
Basically this means, that during the summer months (UK) when the sun is high in the sky, at night the moon is seen low in the sky. Then in the winter months when the sun is low in the sky, the moon is high in the winters night sky.

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Thank you for trying to explain it to me :)
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ok, i think i have exhausted this subject, and bored everyone reading, so ill bow out gracefully lol
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So Steve we are only seeing half the sky realy? so the sun and moon are on the same track?

sorry, you wouldnt believe i got "A" level english lol!
its just maths and science i was a **** at! lol
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No I'm not laughing.......Its a good question.

Back to Huias' tennis ball. Although we're rotating. The flea sitting on top of the tennis ball will see the stars above it.

Whilst the flea sitting on the bottom of the ball will only see the stars below.

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Well thats in a nut shell Mick lol,
so we only see half the sky, but the sun and moon we all see?
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I dont know why i said that cos i know we all see the same sun and moon , ggrr lol

The world rotates - East- west
But doesnt rotate North - south


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OK, i got that bit,
but how come we see different stars?
Ok i know now that northen and southern hemospheres see different skies, but why dont we see the same? i thought the world rotated?
I know you lot are laughing as i type but lol i know im dim on this aspect.
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Its not an easy thing to visualise or explain Crunchy......It took me ages to work out , how come those pictures of Orion appear so differently. lol

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Huias' flea on a tennis ball analogy is good...........Imagine you are the flea sitting on the top of the ball (north pole). You'll see the stars above you all the way in each direction to the horizon

But as you hop southward. The stars that you couldn't see beyond the southern horizon, will start to come into view. Whilst the stars that where seen close to the northern horizon will drop below the horizon.

So as the flea hops from the north pole to the south pole. The sky above will rotate about you.

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Sorry its looking like one of those maths questions in an exam, i cant do those!
ok, dont worry, it was like this at school when i asked anything:(

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ohhhh, blinkin elle Stevie you just confused me more! lmao
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i know that we see different, down under and up here, but i want to know why we see different?
In a nut shell lol
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Hi Crunchy, Think of it this way. In the UK the sun rises in the east & at noon, it is high in the southern the sky.

If your on the equator it also rises from the east & at noon it's directly overhead.

So if you then go south of the equator. The sun again rises in the east, but noon is in the northern sky.

Therefore to the viewer........In the northern hemisphere facing southward. The sun rises from the left of the viewer, to noon in the southern sky.
But to a viewer in the southern hemisphere. The sun rises from the right of the viewer to noon in the northern sky.

Hahahha, thankyou Huia, your from down under i expect? lol

i still need explaing too though, im sorry, it takes me a while to grasp things!
sorry, i know im a pain :(
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Can you think of a tennis ball spinning through space? A flea on the top part of the ball will see things that are above it while a flea on the bottom part will see things below the ball. I hope that explains it.

Huia who is a flea at the bottom!

the thing is,,, (call me dim, i dont care) , if we all see the same sun and moon, why not the same stars?

(in a nut shell) LOL
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Thanks Stevie,,, thats as clear as mud to me,,,,,, sorry but im quite dim in this respect, lol
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