JMartJr
Senior Member.
So I am seeing a number of folks posting in various plces that claim that "Decades ago (or when I was a kid, or the like) you never saw the moon in the daytime, eg:
(This one is over a decade old, which at least illustrates that the moon was visible in the daytime THAT long ago...)
One more current:
Explaining about how the orbit of the moon around the Earth, and the rotation of the Earth, makes it inevitable that at some times the moon would be visible in the daytime is complex (especially with people who don't believe space is real and the like) but I'd like to be able to take one more step, and show not only that it OUGHT to be visible in the daytime, but that it WAS -- I'd love to find references to the moon being observed in the daylight or photos or even artwork clearly showing a daytime moon, from as far back as it can be found. I am struggling to find anything with Google searches, if anybody has any of that handy, or wants to invest a bit of time hunting something down, I'd be grateful.
(This one is over a decade old, which at least illustrates that the moon was visible in the daytime THAT long ago...)
One more current:
Explaining about how the orbit of the moon around the Earth, and the rotation of the Earth, makes it inevitable that at some times the moon would be visible in the daytime is complex (especially with people who don't believe space is real and the like) but I'd like to be able to take one more step, and show not only that it OUGHT to be visible in the daytime, but that it WAS -- I'd love to find references to the moon being observed in the daylight or photos or even artwork clearly showing a daytime moon, from as far back as it can be found. I am struggling to find anything with Google searches, if anybody has any of that handy, or wants to invest a bit of time hunting something down, I'd be grateful.