Question

Astronomers are sometimes asked to serve as expert witnesses in court cases. suppose you are called in as an expert witness, and the defendant states that he could not see the pedestrian because the full moon was casting long shadows across the street at midnight. is this claim credible? why or why not?

Answer 1

I believe this could not be a possibility because a full moon on a cloudless night may produce long shadows but at midnight, as is the sun at noon, the moon is directly over head thus the shadows would be short and close to the object from which they are produced not stretching along a street.