Knud Jahnke on Nostr: I finally put an animated #Moon observation from 2018 onto #WikimediaCommons, where I ...
I finally put an animated #Moon observation from 2018 onto #WikimediaCommons, where I observed the Moon one evening and then again the next morning. With a ~7000km baseline due to the Earth having rotated with me on it, the Moon appears under an angle differing by ~0.5°. That is "diurnal libration":
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