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Letter: Reversed image

Published 5 April 2006

From Ivan Probert

Daniel Fischer proposes that a correct view of the full moon be shown (11 March, p 22). Most published photographs taken from Earth are, to my Antipodean eyes, upside down. How about some inclusiveness here too?

And what about the standard movie shot of the setting moon always moving down to the right? If you’re in the south it moves to the left – and so does the sun.

Forest Range, South Australia

Issue no. 2546 published 8 April 2006

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