Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site lanl.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!lanl!jlg From: jlg@lanl.ARPA Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: StarDate: December 18 Saturn and the Moon on Saturnalia Message-ID: <18269@lanl.ARPA> Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 15:35:52 EST Article-I.D.: lanl.18269 Posted: Tue Dec 18 15:35:52 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 01:36:36 EST References: <933@utastro.UUCP> Sender: newsreader@lanl.ARPA Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 14 > The moon is now waning -- visible in the sky only after midnight -- and > appearing as a slimmer crescent with each new dawn. 'Waning' does not mean 'visible in the sky only after midnight' as the above statement seems to imply. The meaning is 'to get smaller', which starts immediately after the moon is full. The late gibbous moon is a waning moon and it rises shortly after sunset. Sorry to pontificate, but it's just as easy to get these things right. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so - Louis Pastuer James Giles