This SDS Kathleen Fleming talks about the various cycles of the Moon, and the human propensity to see an image in the light and dark patterns on its surface.
Image Left – The Full Moon as it appears rising in Alaska, nearly straight up. In other words, not too different from the way it looks when in the middle of its trajectory, above South. Image Center – The Full Moon appears when it is rising at 33 degrees north. (note: by the time the Moon is above south, it has twisted and looks the same as anywhere in the northern hemisphere, the axis is essentially straight up and down.) Image right – The Full Moon is as it appears from the Southern Hemisphere, you’d be looking north instead of south to see it. Obviously people with pareidolia (everyone) would see completely different images than we do.
What do you see when you look at the patterns on the surface of the moon?
