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Post by SamCogar Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:13 am

Sunset at the North Pole Sunset10

A scene you will probably never get to see

This is the sunset at the North Pole with the moon at its closest point.

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Post by bmd Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:42 pm

Sam,

Are you sure that this is not some sort of "Photoshoped" image. The relative sizes seem far to extreme. Besides, there are no mountains at the North Pole, just ice and ocean.
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Post by SamCogar Wed Jan 14, 2009 9:04 am

bmd,

I received that picture via an E-mail, and was just sharing it.

The caption probably should have read ..... "sunset in the Arctic", ........ but how many people knows what or where the Arctic is?

Of course it was not taken at or from the North Pole, silly.

Look at the reflections of the Sun and Moon in the foreground.

The view is to the South Southwest and the reflections appear to be coming off of "open water" which the photographer had to be "shooting" from a pretty low angle from to "capture the view". And that appears to be "wave action" on both sides of the ice/snow of that ice mass or the shore, ..... but caused by say a boat, not wind, because of the angle of said "waves" to the centerline of the photo. (That should have been obvious to you, being you a mariner.) One can't really judge how high those "mountains" are so they just might be "mountains of ice". The wind will push ice up to look like that .... if you are lookin at it from a position close to the surface from whence your are lookin.

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Post by bmd Wed Jan 14, 2009 2:13 pm

I still think its a photoshop-type pic. The moon and sun should be about the same apparent size, at the horizon, directly overhead, at the equator, at the poles, in a house, with a mouse. I don't believe it here, or there, I don't believe it anywhere.
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Post by SamCogar Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:22 pm

bmd wrote:I still think its a photoshop-type pic. The moon and sun should be about the same apparent size, at the horizon, directly overhead, at the equator, at the poles, in a house, with a mouse. I don't believe it here, or there, I don't believe it anywhere.

I concede, ....... you are right, ..... I screwed up.

Of course it was not taken at or from the North Pole, silly.

Look at the reflections of the Sun and Moon in the foreground.

The proportions are not equal.

The Sun's reflection appears to be a smidge bigger, ...... the Moon's quite a bit smaller.

Would you buy that?

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