The Moon that Never Sets

[Rick]

The Moon that Never Sets

It turns out that those of us living in the mid and low latitudes have only been seeing half of the Moon's trajectory! We're used to the Moon rising in the east and setting in the west. If we observe closely, we'll notice that its path shifts north and south every month, while the Sun only shifts north and south once a year. From February 22 to March 7, 2025, I traveled to northern Norway, around 69 degrees north latitude. The first few days I was there, I found that I couldn't see the Moon at all, day or night. It then dawned on me that because of how far north I was, the Moon's path was too far south for me to see.

More: https://epod.usra.edu/blog/2025/07/the-moon-that-never-sets.html

[Dave A]

Rick
This is an interesting article - we forget and just assume that we can always see the Moon from anywhere- although we are used to seeing a crescent Moon at different angles in different Latitudes