the problem with this theory is that if the sun and moon are flat like some of the youtube videos say they are then we wouldn't get the crescent moon we get sometimes
One of troubles with heliocentric theory's sun or moon is that both the sun and moon appear the same size and shape from all parts of the earth.
Ftfy.
So even though the sun and moon appear the same size from all parts of earth shouldnt the moon in the very least, look smaller from a vantage point in north America when it's over Europe? Even slightly? Shouldn't we ever see a slightly different angle of the face? With that aside, are we instead to believe that even though they appear the same size, it's just an illusion, one is actually 93 million miles away and the other is much closer, and even though their movements look very similar, one revolving around the earth opposite the direction we actually observe, while the other inexplicably stationary? Doesn't it just sound stupid? I guess if you have the chalkboard full of equations you can pass anything off as truth huh.
You are sort of correct with "shouldnt the moon in the very least, look smaller from a vantage point in north America when it's over Europe? Even slightly? Shouldn't we ever see a slightly different angle of the face?" The moon is slightly further away at the horizon than when it is overhead. The change in size is around 1.6%, measurable, but hardly noticeable. And, yes again we would see a "slightly different angle of the face" from places on the opposite sides of the earth, visible if comparing photographs.
For someone of earth of course, the sun
appears to rotate just once per day and the moon
appears to rotate in about 24 hours and 53 minutes.
Most of this movement is the earth's rotation with the moon rotating "backwards" once in a bit over a month.
No, it "doesn't. . . . sound stupid" and no chalkboard full of equations! Gee, must be a couple of decades since I used a chalkboard!
Mind you I completely fail to see how any of the observations of the sun and moon, with eclipses and moon phases fit with a sun and moon "circling" at almost the same height above us.
When the moon and sun are at the same altitude one half of the lunar surface is illuminated and pointing towards the sun, This is called the First Quarter Moon. When the observer looks up he will see a shadow cutting the moon in half. The boundary between the illuminated and unilluminated hemispheres is called the terminator.
When the moon is below the sun's altitude the moon is dark and a New Moon occurs.
When the moon is above the altitude of the sun the moon is fully lit and a Full Moon occurs
When I try to visuallise this geometry I am afraid it simply does not explain what I observe!