I have missed that in the new theater at Clark. Hoping for a more realistic look, once again.

Great question!

Australia is a big place – depending on where you are in Australia your time shift from UK time can be between 8 hours ahead of Universal Time (e.g., Perth) to 10 hours ahead of Universal Time (e.g., Sydney).

Because Australia is on nearly the opposite side of the globe from the UK, it would not be uncommon for it to be daytime in the UK when it is nighttime in Australia, and vice versa.

You would see the same phase of the Moon from either location.

The only real difference is that between the locations you’d see a left-right reversal of the lit/unlit portion of the Moon, because of your northern hemisphere vs. southern hemisphere viewing perspectives. Moon phases and their exact time of occurrence are determined by the geometry between the Sun, Earth and the Moon, and are not related to your location on Earth.

If you are careful with when you try to do it, you can sometimes see the Moon simultaneously from Australia and the UK, but you generally need very flat horizons to do this.

For example, in the UK on February 7th of this year at 7:30 PM a Full Moon will be visible rising in the east while at the same instant it is 5:30 AM on February 8th and the same Full Moon would appear to be setting in the northwest.

Happy Moon-gazing!

An object at the equator is therefore at the farthest possible distance from the line between the rotational poles. That means that an object at the equator is traveling faster during the sphere’s rotation than any other point on the sphere. The faster the movement, the greater outward force, hence the bulge.