cow jumps over the moon

    Caption: Hey Diddle Diddle

      Hey diddle diddle,
      The cat and the fiddle,
      The cow jumped over the Moon,
      The little dog laughed to see such sport,
      And the dish ran away with the spoon.

      ---Mother Goose.

    Is the image astronomically possible at ANY time of day?






    Since the Moon is at full moon and is on the horizon, the cow must be jumping at sunset or sunrise. Cows can only jump the Moon when it is on the horizon since they can only jump so high.

    Note the full moon in the image means the Moon is in opposition to the Sun. So for a full moon at moonrise/moonset, the Sun must be at sunset/sunrise.

    See the video: Hey Diddle Diddle - Nursery Rhyme - With Text | 1:32.

    Credit/Permission: William Wallace Denslow (1856--1915), 1902 (uploaded to by User:Tagishsimon, 2006) / Public domain.
    Image link: Wikipedia: File:Hey Diddle Diddle 2 - WW Denslow - Project Gutenberg etext 18546.jpg.
    Local file: local link: moon_cow_spoon.html.
    File: Moon afar file: moon_cow_spoon.html.