If the Moon were at the same distance as the Space station (ISS), an interesting video by Yetipc1. He placed the moon at the distance of 270 miles (435 km), instead of the 238,855 miles it actually is. Have a look at the video…
Yetipc1 explains:
“When the Moon eclipses the Sun, the camera exposure is adjusted so that you can see the Light of the earth reflecting back upon the moon. This was actually done by using a stand in Earth model to get reasonably accurate Earth “shine”, it is Blue on the left side because the moon is flying over the Gulf of Mexico, and is white/tan on the right side because that part is over the United States . it is Dark in the middle because it is casing a huge shadow, and that shadow does not reflect light back on the Moon. I didn’t quite expect it to look like this, it was a nice surprise.”
“At this distance the Moon would rise in the west and set in the east, The Moon Orbits the Earth counterclockwise when viewed from the North pole looking *down*. the same direction that the earth rotates. Normally the Moon orbits much slower than the earth rotates so it rises in the east and sets in the west, however at 420km it orbits much faster, faster than the earth rotates underneath, therefore it will rise in the west and set in the east.
The Moon would orbit very fast, somewhere between 130 mins and 90 mins, i’ll work this figure out later, it’s actually a simple problem, but i’m busy!”
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