If I am here and you are there.........?

Question

do we see the moon in the same way?

I live in Australia, does that mean the moon I am looking at now looks the same for you in America?

Answer 1

Its every where the same .No change in the way we all see the moon and it looks same everywhere

Answer 2

There is only a slight angular difference between Australia and the United States at the moon's distance. I could calculate it but I don't see the point. In short, no, but only slightly. Not enough to notice.

Fine, I'll do it. The tangent of an angle in a right triangle is the far side divided by the near side. So, 248,000 / 8,000 (the approx distance between the U.S. and Australia) is 31. The inverse tan of that is 88.15 degrees. subtracted from 90 degrees leaves 1.85 degrees. That's the difference.

Since there are 360 degrees in the whole sky, 1.85 degrees is very small. However, because of the curvature of the earth, and Australia is on the opposite side of the earth than America, the moon is on the opposite side of the earth that America is, as is everything else.

Answer 3

Are you in northern Australia or southern Australia?

Actually, if you are in southern Australia, the way you see the moon is most different from the way people in equatorial regions see the moon.

"[The] changing angle of the moon's orbit with respect to the horizon is ... responsible for the different orientations of the crescent itself. The crescent lies 'on its back' like a floating boat following those same February-through-April sunsets in most of the developed world. The rest of the year it appears on its side, like an archer's bow. From equatorial regions the moon's path forever makes a near vertical tilt with the horizon, so that a smiling crescent is the unvarying logo of the tropics. Conversely, a sideways crescent is the only moon ever seen from polar areas."

Answer 4

well I am here and you are there and the moon is up there and we only have one moon, so we must be looking at the same moon. so it would be looking pretty much the same.. I think.

Answer 5

Yes. Although we are very far apart on Earth, we are still way closer to each other than either one of us is to the moon. We only see one side of the moon ever.

Answer 6

Yeah, sort of romantic, isn't it?
BTW, I also live in Australia, and the Moon, although it is the same face as the northern hemisphere, it is upside down.

Answer 7

While we can only see one side of the moon from any vantage point on Earth you will be seeimg it a lot more clearly from Australia because I think there may be less air pollution.

Answer 8

No. The phase of a moon is a function of Longitude and Latitude of the observer. Almost but not exactly the same which you see.

Answer 9

It looks different, i.e. the waxing and waning moon looks different in different parts of the world. See links below for the visual demonstration.

Answer 10

No we dont see the moon in the exact same way...because When its night there its day here....in India i mean...and you see th emoon in a different phase that time and we see it in a different phase...