23 Aug
2006
23 Aug
'06
6:33 a.m.
Considering the relative albedos of a mostly cloudless vs. cloud-covered hemisphere, I'd be willing to bet that at extremes it still has a greater effect on earthshine than distance. I'm moving on. --- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
The relative Moon-Earth distance for Earthshine is the inverse of the extraordinarily bright full Moon effect. But my RASC Observer's Handbook and MICA ephemeris is showing the Moon around 401,000 km distant on the 21st. That's closer to apogee than perigee.
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