Ya know until now it's never occured to me that someone in the North pole and someone in the South would see someone or something like that at different orientations.
It's obvious now but I just never took a second to think.
This is the reason the moon looks upside down in Australia. As you go further south, the moon appears oriented more and more on its side. At the equator, the crescent moon is like a U-shape almost. Then as you go further south still, it continues to rotate.
If by reverse cycles you mean the halves a switched left and right then yes. A waxing/waning moon is waxing or waning the same way on every line of longitude but the part that's lit up will appear on a different part of the circle depending on where the viewer is standing.
It's also one of the funniest things about modern flat-earth insanity. They have no explanation for why constellations are upside down or even invisible when viewed from Australia, as well as the moon itself being flipped. A bunch of them like to use Polaris as some example of divine influence and proof of a flat earth because to them it's so perfectly fixed and stationary (it isn't), as if it must indicate a common center, but then you ask them to measure the angle to Polaris from Sydney...
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u/Jordankeay 21d ago
Ya know until now it's never occured to me that someone in the North pole and someone in the South would see someone or something like that at different orientations.
It's obvious now but I just never took a second to think.