Letter: Glimpses of the moon, but not as we see it

Fred Topliffe
Saturday 15 May 1993 18:02 EDT
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I AM intrigued by how often the moon is portrayed incorrectly by artists and even photographers. In the Sunday Review (9 May) the illustration by Sarah Perkins for the article on nightingales is a case in point. The image of the moon is both upside down and laterally inverted. The moon will appear upside down to an observer in the southern hemisphere, or one using an astronomical telescope, but this is presumably not the case here. The lateral inversion could only be achieved by using a mirror or printing the image through the wrong side of the negative.

Fred Topliffe

Cumnor Hill, Oxford

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