Super moon!!

[Kayelle]

So are you all outside looking at the giant "Super Moon"??

It's not dark here yet but I'm ready for for 8:34 when it should be at it's most magnificent here.


Go outside!!

http://www.discusscooking.com/forums/ews.cnet.com/2300-17938_105-10007135.html?tag=mncol

 

[buckytom]

we missed it here. i was looking forward to going to the roof of my building, but we are overcast with clouds. i'll have to wait until the next perigee.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

Is that 8:34 AM or 8:34 FM?

 

[purple.alien.giraffe]

It was cloudy here too.

 

[Katie H]

Omigosh! I'm a huge full moon fan and I always watch the calendar to see when it will occur. I make it a point to go outside to see it every month and tonight's (actually my calendar says tomorrow night's) moon is gorgeous.

Glenn and I were out tonight and the ride home was sooooo beautiful following the big golden orb in the sky.

Can't wait for tomorrow night.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

Clouds as far as the eye can see.

 

[buckytom]

ok, i'm going to the roof, bending over facing east, and pulling my pants down.

does that help anyone.


i feel better...

 

[PrincessFiona60]

My, that IS blinding white.

 

[Barbara L]

ok, i'm going to the roof, bending over facing east, and pulling my pants down.

does that help anyone.


i feel better...

Now I see it! Hey, wait a cotton picking minute, isn't the moon in the other direction tonight? BT I think you are pulling my leg!

It was too cloudy here tonight. I will never forget the one my mom and I saw about 40 years ago though. We were walking home from the store and there it was, HUGE and dark orange. If you picture the moon normally as a golf ball, this was a basketball. I never knew it was called a Super Moon until this last year. We tried explaining it to people, but I think they thought we were exaggerating. It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen! I wish I had been able to get a picture of it, but I will always have the picture in my mind.

 

[taxlady]

We drove 6 km down to the lake shore to see it. It was lovely. I forgot to bring the camera, so I took some pix with my iPhone. How the heck do I get those pix off my iPhone without emailing them? I get charged for picture emails.

I synced the phone on my computer, but all I see is a new folder called "iPod Photo Cache" with a single file: "Photo Database". It has no file extension and it's only 2kb.

 

[Greg Who Cooks]

Actually it is pretty big, as big as I recall seeing.

When I posted earlier it was before moonrise, local time, local locale. I think the moon rises more or less about the same local time +/- 30 minutes or so anywhere on any given night because the moon moves lots slower than the sun (1 rev/month instead of 1 rev/day).

Anyway it's big. I'm glad I'm not lycanthropic

 

[Kayelle]

The moon had to come over our 2,000 ft. mountain. The base of the mountain is about a mile from here, so it didn't look that much different with it so high in the sky.

I saw the last one in 1993 from the beach at dusk and it was a spectacular unworldly orange globe.

 

[taxlady]

I think it's only picture SMS I get charged for.

The Moon sure looked a lot larger when I was looking at it.

This sign was in the park where we stopped to look at the Moon. I am now calling that park, "Party Pooper Park".

 

[PrincessFiona60]

The size of the moon is an optical illusion, that is what we see. Your camera, not having a brain, cannot see the illusion through it's lens.

 

[taxlady]

The size of the moon is an optical illusion, that is what we see. Your camera, not having a brain, cannot see the illusion through it's lens.

Yeah, I know that.

 

[Claire]

I went out and looked, and ... well, didn't seem a big deal.

D'ya know what I haven't seen in eons? A real harvest moon. We live in farm country, but do not remember seeing one since I was in North Dakota in my twenties. I think maybe modern, more ecologically viable farming methods don't put the chaff in the air the way that it was when I was younger? But that enormous gold/orange moon was something to behold.

 

[purple.alien.giraffe]

If you turn your head upside down or look at the moon through a mirror when it is large like that, it shrinks to normal size. I took an elective astronomy class in university and one of the assignments was to look at such a moon while upside down.