Why dont you base your book an a fictional moon which has a fictional planet
it orbits on a fictional orbit in a fictional star system? This will make
you seem like less of a dumbass... like Rand Simberg and Brett Buck
mentioned, do some drawings, its not hard, and work out a possible way that
this moon of yours can obey your 'rules' in the book... Its dangerous doing
a fiction book on a non-fiction stage... you still need to be believable,
so, like I said, make it ALL fictional...

Best of luck...

Oh and if you want to be precise about our moon, its lunar month is 27.3
days... but who's counting?

Niko


"k2director" wrote in message
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I'm doing some fiction writing about the moon, and was curious about a
couple of things. Was wondering if anyone could shed light on these
questions!

1) Is the moon iluminated only by light reflected from the Earth? I
tried to imagine that, but can't imagine if the moon rotates the
earth every month, how it doesn't get direct sunlight at some point.
Ie, come between the Earth and Sun and therefore get direct sunlight
on the lunar side opposite the Earth.

2) Is one side of the moon always in darkness and is that side
unchanging? In other words, if you were to plant a flag on the dark
side of the moon, would that flag always be in darkness during the
moon's rotation around the earth, and its own axis rotation?

3) Is it possible to be on one side of the moon that can't see the
Earth, but still gets some kind of light either reflected from Earth
or the sun? I'm working on a story that involves a character not
being able to see our planet from his vantage point, but does that
mean the character will be in pure darkness?

Any answers very much appreciated! THank you....


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