I was messing around with some lunar photos and antimated them and came up with a wobble in the moon's view of the monthly cycle. Is this really true. I always thought we saw exactly the same side all the time without any variations.

It's ironic that the moon is in sync with earth like that. The fact that the moon, sun and earth are all just magically in ratio sync with respect to diamerters and distances so that we have those wonderful lunar and solar eclipes.

Pretty neat!

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Did these photos come from different places on the earth? Were these taken at different times of year? I don't know if it does or not. It may be that there is a slight wobble to its orientation. It only is in sync with Earth because one end of it is heavier than the other and likes to face Earth.

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Yes, there's a link to another animation and a discussion here:

http://forum.whichbrowser.co.uk/showthread.php?t=282

Thanks Guys & you to Hami,

The animation link was just like my Lunar animation that I put together. Cool. How easy, just ask and you receive. Plus got some more nice links to charter. Killer!

Ray

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I checked a couple of books and 41% is always visible, 41% never visible, and 18% sometimes visible. It's due to the orbit of the Moon being elliptical, not in the plane of the equator, and observing from a rotating Earth.