Show WHEN THE MOON IS FULL it u I 1 an F avent vent of rare astronomical oc currence dilyou did you ever see a full moon asks a writer terin an fn the st louis republic I 1 linow know what your answer will he be without waiting for it it is this yes once every month since I 1 have ha ve been old enough to pay attention to such phenomena yet I 1 take the position t that hat you are badly mistaken and that in all probability pro babil you have e never in in your life beheld the full face of our silvery sister world by way of solution let us see what it takes to constitute a full moon in the exact sense of the term A full moon occurs only when our obsequious attendant is one hundred and eighty degrees of longitude from the sun old d sol and the earth being in the ecliptic but the in moons cons at atan an angle of five degrees eight minutes forty seven seconds and is therefore nev never er anthe ecliptic except when at its nodes or crossings crossing this being the case what we call the circular disk of the moon full moon aiels considerable of being an exact circle being what astronomers a term in a state of globosity 1 and is never a perfect disk ex except capt when a full moon happens exactly as the time when luna is crossing t the he ecliptic ebli itic at which time she must necessarily be centrally eclipsed one of our best present day astronomers in concluding an article of much merit on the same subject says we therefore conclude that a real full moong moon one hav having i ng a perfect circle has rarely if ever top 1 n seen |