Is the moon an optical illusion?

  By Wild Heretic | May 26, 2013 | trouble in space

The current concept of the moon states that it is a solid spherical object which orbits the Earth every 29.5 days at an average distance of 385,000km and rotates on its axis anti-clockwise (viewed from the northern hemisphere) at 16.7 km/hr or once every 27.32 days.

The Earth/moon distance at the correct proportions according to the current model.

It has to be this distance and speed to match the observable facts of the moon which is that we see certain illuminated portions of the same side every night (and occasionally day).

The moon in the heliocentric model.

The different phases of the moon over a month.

This alone is an incredible co-incidence. Of course, we already know that the Earth doesn’t revolve around the Sun, so how would the above diagram work with the standard geocentric model? With great difficulty. I’m not sure if it is possible even if the sizes, distances and speeds of the Sun/moon and their movements are absolutely optimized to try and match the observable facts. This is all moot anyway as no bodies can rotate around a completely 100% stationary Earth because it contradicts the center of mass of rotating bodies.
But let’s look at other strange observable pieces of evidence which stand alone from these theories.

Eyewitness anomalies
Video anomalies
Incredible clarity
Reflecting light (chiaroscuro)

Eyewitness anomalies

This is hearsay evidence which is the weakest. Believing a person on a forum on the internet is like believing the “man in the pub”. However, it is worth noting as there are so many of these reports.
There is this comment from an observer on godlikeproductions.com (don’t laugh) on 8th Jan 2012, “I could see it all day yesterday here in Houston. Not a cloud in the sky”, and “I am near Houston too, and have seen it. No clouds either”, and “Yep, I have been seeing it all this past week during the day”. The problem is according to timeanddate.com, at Houston on 7th Jan 2012, the moon rose at 17:22, set at 06:37 and was only one day away from a full moon!
The moon seemed to be out all day and night in Texas on this date, “I live in Oklahoma and I have been pointing this very thing out to people lately… For at least the last week or so, the moon is out ALL the day and still in the sky when I go to bed”
Maybe they are all lying or mistaken. Possibly.
Then there is the disappearing moon problem, “I was outside bout 8pm looked at the moon, then I had a cigarette and looked back and the f****** moon was GONE!!!”
The double moon hallucination, “…in late October, 1995, when I saw something I will never forget. Around 10:00 a.m. I happened to look straight up in the sky and saw the moon. It appeared very large and was about 3/4 full (sorry, I don’t know the proper term). After staring at it for a couple of minutes, it occurred to me that it was in the wrong part of the sky. That’s when I looked southward, towards the horizon and saw it again. I did a double-, triple-, quadruple-take! I couldn’t believe my eyes. I did a comparison and the moons were identical.”
The stationary moon, “Later in the morning at about 0930, I stepped out again and lo and behold, there was the moon again – practically in the same position as it was at 0630 – BUT THREE HOURS LATER.”
The slow-moving moon, “The Moon we saw this morning was towards the West, in the location of 10 o’clock. Which means that in twelve hours the Moon just moved around 90 degrees????”
Sure, these could all be mirages. Are there any harder pieces of evidence? Yes, there are.

Video anomalies

The moon in front of clouds. Difficult one to explain away. The brightness of the moon overpowers the lighter-colored clouds maybe?	The moon in front of clouds again. The video camera makes the moon look brighter than it is. Is it really shining through the pale clouds?
The pacman moon. Your guess is as good as mine.	The pacman moon again. It could be a cloud, but the lines are far too angular.
The jumping moon. Mirage? Reflection? Kundalini force as the author claims?	The melting moon. I’ve no idea. Plasma?
The flipped moon. As you have seen at the start of this post, this isn’t supposed to happen period.	The disappearing moon. Clouds? Possibly.
Another disappearing moon. It is hard to blame clouds here.	The stripy moon. Clouds? Really?

Incredible clarity

The moon is supposed to be on average 385,000km distance from us, but the clarity of its picture is sometimes remarkable even to the naked eye. It’s also alleged to be a grey solid rock but its picture does not resemble pictures of other rocks such as mountains. In fact, there is no detail visible on photographs of distant mountains merely 10s of kilometers away.
The moon is more akin to something like microscopic pictures of polished aluminum than it is to a distant stony surface.

A close-up of the moon from the Hale telescope.

A microscopic image of polished aluminum.

The lack of detail of these distant mountains below is nothing like the crisp detail we can see on the moon even with the naked eye:

A full moon showing astounding crisp, clear and detailed features.	A distant mountain with no details visible.
The lack of clarity is astonishing.	These mountains on the horizon can be barely seen at all, let alone any detail.
Despite the snow white contrast, little is seen on the furthest ranges.	Even this clarity isn’t a patch on the moon some nights.

Big thanks to Simon Shack, the founder of Cluesforum for pointing this out.

Reflecting light (chiaroscuro)

Possibly the biggest anomaly with the moon is the way it reflects light; or rather the way it doesn’t. When a point of light shines on a solid sphere, the light reflecting off the sphere slowly decreases away from the area directly facing the light source.

A typical half-moon not reflecting light as a sphere.

How a sphere reflects light.

The fact that the Sun is not a spotlight doesn’t matter as it is a point of light in the blackness of space and too far away for its light to shine on to the moon’s back surface, at least according to the model du jour.

This means that it is not only the moon that cannot be a sphere, but also the “planets” as well, as they also reflect light in the same way.

The planet Mars observed through the Hale telescope not reflecting light as a sphere should.

The planet Uranus observed through the Hale telescope not shining like a solid sphere.

This would agree with the heliocentrists’ point that there can be no retrograde planetary motion in a geocentric universe. This is because planets are NOT solid spheres moving around anything. In fact, because the moon is likely to be an optical illusion of some kind and that the “planets” are also seen with the same light reflection as the moon, it follows by characteristic association that the “planets” are also probably optical illusions.
They could be disks or maybe bowls? I don’t know what shape they are, but it is further evidence that they are not real, but some kind of projection instead. A projection of what? No idea.
There is evidence of something even stranger in the sky. More on that in the next post.
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