Dark Side of the Moon Tour – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics", the name under which it made its press debut in February 1972 at London's Rainbow Theatre. The title changed for the first part of the US tour to "Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics)" during April and May before reverting to "Dark Side of the Moon – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics" in September for the second part of the US tour and finally released in 1973 under the title of "The Dark Side of the Moon". Remarkably, at its first full live performance at Guildhall, Portsmouth, England on 21 January 1972, most of
Orbit of the Moon about 34 arc minutes below the horizon, due to atmospheric refraction. Because of the inclination of the moon's orbit with respect to the earth's equator, the moon is above the horizon at the North and South Pole for almost two weeks every month, even though the sun is below the horizon for six months at a time. The period from moonrise to moonrise at the poles is a tropical month, about 27.3 days, quite close to the sidereal period. When the sun is the furthest below the horizon (winter solstice), the moon will be full when it is at its