FARGO — All over the world, weather permitting, we all see the same moon in the same phase. What varies, is the path the moon takes across the sky. The moon revolves around Earth in an orbit relatively close to the plane of Earth's equator, so the nearer to the equator one is, the higher the moon appears in the sky. Near the equator, the moon moves from east to west across the top of the sky, much like the sun does in those regions.
For residents of the southern hemisphere, the moon's position in the sky varies with latitude, and just like here in the northern hemisphere, the moon traverses the sky at a higher angle the closer to the equator one is located. However, in the southern hemisphere, people see the moon upside-down compared to how we see it, so our fabled man-in-the-moon face is upside down when viewed down under.
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