"beerbarrel" wrote in message

It wasn't a trick. He might have been on the Moon in which case the Earth
would be in a constellation.


Then you should have asked what constellation it would have been in
tonight it would be changing constantly.

The Moon takes about 28 days to orbit the Earth. There are about 14
"zodiacal"
constellations that the Earth could be in. So it would be in any given
constellation for roughly 2 days. So an answer to what constellation Earth
was in on *that* particular day would have sufficed.

In fact, I've cranked up my Redshift program, set it to my post of 1716 UTC
2 JAN 05 and set up my location as the Moon. I then asked it to find the
Earth in the sky. It was in Pisces as you can see he

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zredshift.htm
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