Me and my dad were absolutely puzzled by this. We live in PA (eastern time) and at 1:00 AM we saw the moon (about a quarter moon) setting over the horizon opposite where it comes up. Then gone!
This is a weekend, but normally during the week every morning at 7:00 AM I can see the moon roughly in this same spot.
In summary, the moon set below the horizon 6 hours before it did yesterday, and every day the last few weeks since the time change! And it is a 100% clear, cold night. Despite the clear skies, it is incredibly dark.
Never saw anything like this. Now, over an hour later, I'm standing outside just to make sure that it was in fact the moon that we saw set, and sure enough, there is no hint of the moon in the sky and it is still a good 5 hours until daybreak (when we normally see the moon setting).
I checked todays date on some lunar calenders. Nothing is happening, just a normal roughly quarter moon.
Answers anyone? Date is the early morning of Apr. 22, 2007.
2007-04-21
19:14:44
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