Moon and Phases

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Moon and Phases

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"If man is not affected in some way by the Moon, he is the only thing on Earth that isn’t." [Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953), US physicist & 1923 Nobel Prize winner]


Moon vs Sun Luminosity
We will assume you will use the full moon to start a fire. Fortunately, the moon has almost exactly the same apparent diameter as the sun and is a sunlit object so that simplifies matters greatly. We shall also ingnore spectral balance differences and only take into account the difference in apparent magnitude. The sun is assigned a magnitude of -26.7 and the full moon about -12.6. As each magnitude is equal to the fifth root of 100 (a change of about 2.5119 times per magnitude) this means the full moon is about 444,631 times dimmer than the sun. So, if we assume you can start a fire with the sun using a magnifier of 1 inch diameter we need a lens (or mirror) of 444,631 times greater area. This gives
.785398 X 444,631=349212.
Sqrt of 111157=333.4
333.4 X 2 / 12 = 55 foot diameter mirror. (from http://bbs.homeshopmachinist.net/threads/5698-Aluminum-telescope-mirrors/page2)

Blue Moon
This month's full moon, which rises on Tuesday (Aug. 20, 2013), is not just a Blue Moon - it's also the Full Sturgeon Moon, the Full Red Moon, the Green Corn Moon and the Grain Moon.

Today's full moon qualifies as a Blue Moon because it's the third full moon in a season with four (most seasons have only three). Historically, there have been two different definitions of a Blue Moon.









The scales march on following each other methodically, whether they be written with sharps or flats, and

"Not a step is out of tune, as the tides obey the moon."

The most natural, because the genetic, way to write the scales is to make the major scales all in sharps, after C, because the major genesis is upward in ratios ascending; and to make the minor scales all in flats, after A, because the minor genesis is downward in ratios descending. Let the young student, however, always keep in mind that the sharps and flats are simply marks to show how Nature, at whatever pitch we are taking the scales, is securely keeping them in the same form as when they are first generated; and in their birthplace no sharps or flats are needed. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 90]

Gravity Fractal - We did a calculation off the distance from the Earth to the moon. We started dividing it down by various factors and testing them on the bench. When I tried dividing it repeatedly by 12 I got a big surprise. I cut an aluminum tube to 2x of the value, filled it with a bismuth core, carefully filed the bismuth to fit perfectly. A strong field bubble started to form around it. After about 3 days I had to destroy it, it was starting to distort and warp the area in the garage so bad I was getting disoriented. It created an inflow compression field. Hit my head hard, so I had set it up on the shelf, but it grew! We used this length with stainless steel in a joe cell and in that it worked really well. The first Joe cell that did not ever go dead at night around 2 am. Cut a length of Aluminum tube and wave it around, as it points straight down it vibrates up pretty nicely. [David Lowrance, http://www.resonantfractals.org/Doc/Magnetism/GravityRods.htm]

See Also

Part 22 - Solar Rings and Planetary Formation
Propositions of Astronomy
solar system
Sun Yvd

Created by Dale Pond. Last Modification: Saturday June 25, 2022 05:55:36 MDT by Dale Pond.