Today's Eclipse. Help me understand what I witnessed.
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You are seeing the dark side of the moon, which would be black.
The dark side of the moon never faces earth. We only see the one side. That is one of those unexplained anomalies. The moon never rotates and stays facing the earth without change.
Technically that's the far-side of the moon. People refer to it as the dark side because we can't see from Earth, but it's lit up just as much as the side that faces us, we just can't see it.
It's not unexplained, the moon is so close that it's tidally locked with the Earth so it rotates about the same speed that it orbits the Earth therefore we see the same side (near side) all of the time and the far side faces away.
You are correct, I was waiting for someone to point that out....
It does rotate, once every 24 hours.
sidereal day ---- 23 h 56 min 4.0905 s