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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Harvest Moon
Message-ID: <1198@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 23:48:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 23:48:40 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 04:29:12 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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The Stardate posting of Sept. 10 on "The Harvest Moon" contained this
statement:

	... this full moon rises on a path that makes a very narrow
	angle with the horizon -- so the Harvest Moon stays near the
	horizon longer than most full moons.

This is incorrect. The moon rises by its diurnal motion, not its orbital
motion. The referred to narrow angle makes the harvest moon rise at nearly
the same time for several nights in a row.

The midsummer full moon will skim the horizon as suggested since its
diurnal path makes the narrowest angle with the horizon.

	Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew