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The 24-hour Moon — a circumpolar ‘midnight Moon’ the flat model can’t lift

The claim

“Whatever explains the 24-hour Antarctic Sun explains the Moon too — no globe needed.”

What is measured

For about two weeks a month the polar Moon never sets. It circles at steady altitude around the south celestial pole, exactly like the southern stars, and a full ‘midnight Moon’ lights the Antarctic winter. A nearby spotlight must rise and set daily and has no pole to circle. Only a globe makes a circumpolar Moon.

What would show this is wrong

a stretch of polar winter in which the Moon rises and sets on an ordinary daily cycle from the South Pole rather than circling above the horizon for days, or a flat-Earth mechanism that holds a nearby circling Moon above the Antarctic horizon for two weeks and then removes it for two, tracking the Moon’s declination instead of a daily circuit.

Sources

  1. Lunar standstill and the Moon’s declination. The Moon’s orbit is tilted ~5.14° to the ecliptic, so its declination swings between about ±18.3° and ±28.6° over an 18.6-year cycle. Since a bod link
  2. Polar night and the midnight sun. Inside the polar circles (beyond ~66.5°) the Sun stays below the horizon for more than 24 hours in winter and above it for more than 24 hours in summer; at link
  3. The major lunar standstill and the circumpolar Moon. The Moon’s greatest monthly declination swings between about 18.1 degrees at a minor standstill and 28.7 degrees at a major standstill, o link
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