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Old May 10th 18, 06:31 AM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default Full moon at the South Pole

At least some websites are making an attempt to create animation representing the position of the moon to the Earth and specifically, in this case to the South Pole and why it will be out of sight in a few days for observers at that unique location

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronom.../location.html

Of course the Earth's surface rotation in response to the Earth's orbital motion is the main focus and presently looks like the image in the previous post (2003/05/22) -

http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/...mericas250.jpg