Ok here's the question, I know that you see different stars depending on the hemisphere you are in but....

Question

what about the moon, do you see a different face of the moon depending on where you are??? And can anyone explain exactly why?

Answer 1

Because of parallax a person watching the moon rise will see a very slightly bit more of one edge of the moon compared to a person 180 degrees away watching it set at the same moment. The difference is very slight, though. In addition, everyone sees more than 50 per cent of one hemisphere of the moon because, while it's rotation is constant, it's velocity around the earth varies because it's orbit is not a circle. Consequently we can see more of the moon than 50 per cent over the course of several months. I think we see 59 per cent in reality, though not all at the same time.

Answer 2

You see *some* different stars depending on your latitude. The stars that are directly above Earth's equator can be seen by eveyone except folks exactly at the North or South Pole (and since no one lives there permanently....) So everyone sees Orion, for example, and other constellations such as the signs of the zodiac (which are the 13 constellations the Sun appears to move through during the year - yes, 13, not 12). But, as someone else mentioned, folks in the southern hemisphere see the Moon and the constellations upside-down compared to those in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer 3

The moon rotates at the same speed at which it orbits the earth, so only one side of the moon is ever displayed toward earth. The only people that have seen the other side of the moon first hand are Apollo astronauts. The moon more or less follows the plane of the ecliptic, which is visible from both hemispheres. Only the furthest stars toward the opposite poles out of visible sight to most latitudes that people live in. The further south you go, the further south in the sky you will see and vice versa if you lived southern hemisphere and travelled north.

Answer 4

The moon is the same wherever you go, but what you see LOOKS different.

We Northern Hemisphere viewers see the man in the moon and the "Lady in the Moon." In the Southern Hemisphere, where things look upside-down to us northerners, one can see the "Boy in the Moon," a perspective not obvious in the Northern Hemisphere.

Answer 5

No, it unquestionably does no longer. This city legend is attributed to the Coriolis tension, it extremely is actual and does have an effect on issues at the same time with air currents. yet for the Coriolis tension to be exerted on something, it takes time and extensive distances. The Coriolis effect is basically the shown fact which you would be shifting speedier by using area whilst you're on the equator than greater north or south of it. it extremely is as a results of fact the curvature of the earth could deliver you closer to the middle of the axis of spin of the earth as you bypass greater north or south. whilst you're on the authentic north or south pole, you does no longer be shifting in any respect. in case you have 20" tires on a motor vehicle that has it extremely is speedometer going at 50 miles an hour, then magically replace those tires to 20-5" whilst protecting the comparable placing on the accelerator, you will discover which you're going speedier. The speedometer is going to examine 50 mph, yet it extremely is basically as a results of fact it extremely is desperate to examine the quantity of spin on the axis of the wheel. whether the Coriolis tension is exerted on the water that flows down loos, it extremely is basically too small to effect its course. different aspects, such as a results of fact the attitude that the water is going right into a drain, the action by utilising which it extremely is drawn in, the incongruities of the floor, etc, have appreciably greater impression on the way it spins around the drain, and very much overwhelms the impression of the Coriolis tension.

Answer 6

The Moon faces are reversed on the Southern hemisphere, i.e. it is
")" shaped descending and "(" shaped when it's ascending. This is because they see the Moon from "below" - if you turn a ")" upside down it looks like a "(".

Sorry, New Zeelanders, for my biased language, I know you are the ones who see it correctly and we are the ones that see it upside down. Just wanted to explain it so that it's not too confusing for my fellow Northerners :-)

Answer 7

The whole earth sees one side of the moon. The reason is that it reotates once a month as it revolves once a month, so the same side is always towards us. It's like if you held a basketball at arm's length and swung your arm around your body, you will always see the same side of the basketball.

Answer 8

No- we only see one side of the moon- the moon does not revolve, so always see the same side of it. We have only seen the other side through spacecraft pictures.

Answer 9

we don't see different faces of we only see one face and its the near side of the moon..
the moon revolves as it rotates w/ the rotation of the earth..

Answer 10

I do not think moon revolves around it’s own axis. It just revolves around earth. If moon revolves around it’s own axis in my opinion it is impossible for it to hide its other face. It has to has to has to show all sides in that case. Irrespective of moon rotates around earth once in a month or any duration of time if moon rotates around its axis then it has to show all its sides to earth. There is no trick here. If somebody is rotating in front of you irrespective of how he does it he has to show both front part and back part. It is impossible to show only one part , it is impossible.

It is possible provided moon rotates around its horizontal axis, then we can see only one face of the moon. But if moon rotates around it’s vertical axis like earth does then moon has to show all faces to earth.

I feel moon doesn’t rotate around its own axis just rotates around earth. So the same face always faces the earth.