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Lunar Parallax

Parallax Effect and the Moon

Parallax is the apparent shift caused by viewing an object from two different vantage points. You can see it easily just by alternately blinking your left and right eye. Parallax is also evident in the apparent position of the Moon viewed from two distant points on the Earth, or from the same point six hours apart. Hipparchus, in the second century BC, derived a very good estimate of the distance to the Moon using lunar parallax.

Lunar parallax (often short for lunar horizontal parallax or lunar equatorial horizontal parallax), is a special case of (diurnal) parallax: the Moon, being the nearest celestial body, has by far the largest maximum parallax of any celestial body, it can exceed 1 degree.

The diagram for stellar parallax can illustrate lunar parallax as well, if the diagram is taken to be scaled right down and slightly modified. Instead of 'near star', read 'Moon', and instead of taking the circle at the bottom of the diagram to represent the size of the Earth's orbit around the Sun, take it to be the size of the Earth's globe, and of a circle around the Earth's surface. Then, the lunar (horizontal) parallax amounts to the difference in angular position, relative to the background of distant stars, of the Moon as seen from two different viewing positions on the Earth: one of the viewing positions is the place from which the Moon can be seen directly overhead at a given moment (that is, viewed along the vertical line in the diagram); and the other viewing position is a place from which the Moon can be seen on the horizon at the same moment

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The Phases of the Moon

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The New Moon

Moon Phase

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The First Quarter Moon

Moon Phase

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The Full Moon

Moon Phase

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The Last Quarter Moon

Moon Phase

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