[AZ-Observing] Re: By The Light of The Southerly Moon

     What I noticed was about ten days ago when it was just about as
far _north_ of the ecliptic.  From Anderson Mesa I'm used to seeing
the Moon sorta west to soutwest as it sets, but on the evening in
question (when it was near El Nath, which joins the Taurus and Auriga
constellation patterns), it reminded me of being in Chile with the
Moon "too far" in the northwest.  Whereas, as Tom noted, the last-quarter
Moon is rising very late at this season, earlier in the lunation the
first-quarter Moon wasn't _setting_ until ~3am---and it already is
getting light at 4:30a.
     All this is reversed again in autumn, since the Moon first comes
around along the ecliptic quite low in the southwest, but then after
Full, there's the 'harvest moon' effect where it is moving rapidly north
along the ecliptic and the Moon persists in the evening sky for 
longer than you might expect (and ends up in the pre-dawn sky near
El Nath, which with the Pleiades etc nearby, makes for a number of
Joe Orman moments at dawn).

\Brian
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