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The Ancient Black Road, The Main Shadow

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RVG#3,3 20. The object is crossing from the left to the right out in front of you between the Earth and Moon. The "Sun," the actual real Sun, is positioned behind the viewer, behind the Earth, in line with the Moon and the object and the Earth. At first the shadow travels from left to right and at the same time the shadow is traveling on an angle away from you that is steadily increasing as the shadows lengthen. Initially there is a lot of left to right motion. Later as the lines of the shadow grow very long the angle they are seen at has increased greatly and now the shadow is lengthening and traveling almost all the way up to ninety degrees, "or straight away from you. As the object continues to cross the shadow goes from having a lot of left to right motion all the way to nearly traveling straight away from you without any motion from the left to the right at all. The lines of the three main shadows become straight as they pass over the flat whiteness of the valley turning the the flat white cloudy mistiness into flat smooth hard ground. 21. Does the shadow reach all the way to ninety degrees before it starts to go up and down and up and down? I don't know. It might, it might not. I don't really think that it does but I can't be 100% certain. Events start to happen very fast at this point. This is the point were the viewer, at least this viewer, started to lose track of the details of exactly what's happening. My viewing position was racing forward as if "zooming," like a zoom lens up into the distance. I was less aware of the surrounding details all the time as the point of the big main shadow dragged the place I was seeing from further forward into the distance of the Moon's changed light. In general I hope that my descriptions can help future viewer's find their way to this point. The point is to find and stare at the very end of the tallest widest shadow that is in the right side of the entire scene that you are able to see. That's what's important!

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