Nov 14th, 2016: Supermoon

You've probably heard about this, but just a reminder to peek at the moon tonight.
Well by morning it will be last night, I've had a report it looks spectacular on Cape Cod.



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just now, from my front porch.

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Just cleared the trees on the hill across the street, but looks more like a Clark Kent Moon than a Supermoon.

Now it's up it doesn't look a lot bigger but definitely brighter.

It always looks tiny in the middle of the sky.

I tell you though, I find it hard to sleep during a full moon while camping. Too damn bright. This moon would be like trying to sleep under a streetlight.

I just went out to look at it again and from our steps, it's brighter than the street light at the end of our drive way

I didn't know it was a supermoon, but I saw it while shopping this evening....
1) it made me want to write a poem
2) I thought "well there's something that will remain constant and beautiful no matter what the orange idiot does, something he can't fuck up, we should all go out and look at the moon more to remind us that it's worth continuing to fight"

then I got worried in case he has a policy for fucking up the moon I just didn't hear about yet....

....I'm sorry, I know this isn't the politics place, but that's just what I thought. It was so beautiful it soothed me. A little.

That was a nice sentiment, monster. Hugzz.

I don't grok the way the moon moves. It's to be its fullest at 8:52 am EST on the 14th. That's 8.5 hours away ish. But it's biggest when it's near the horizon. Which direction will it be rising and setting from my perspective, and at what times? I'd like to try to get a photo like glatt's.

... Glatt, can you post or email me the raw uncropped picture?

Unfortunately it rained all day and night. Fortunately the werewolves weren't able to roam.

tarheel

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Originally Posted by lumberjim ... Glatt, can you post or email me the raw uncropped picture?

APoD is one of the blogs I read daily . Tonight's moon is the largest since 1948, according to this morning's post (awesome shot of the space station transiting last month's full moon).

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Originally Posted by lumberjim I don't grok the way the moon moves.

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Originally Posted by lumberjim I don't grok the way the moon moves. It's to be its fullest at 8:52 am EST on the 14th. That's 8.5 hours away ish. But it's biggest when it's near the horizon. Which direction will it be rising and setting from my perspective, and at what times? I'd like to try to get a photo like glatt's.

I understand light refraction.

I meant I don't know what path it takes in my sky. I know the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, because we revolve around IT. I never learned how to predict where or when the moon would be on the horizon as it rises and sets.... I don't know if it's a regular pattern or what.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce Just cleared the trees on the hill across the street, but looks more like a Clark Kent Moon than a Supermoon.

Garrr!
My sort-of local paper (Santa Rosa CA Press Democrat) had an article today stating "astronomers say the moon has not been this close since ...1948."
Above it says "Tonight's moon is the largest since 1948."
The moon, in fact, has been this big and this close every month since 1948 and long before.
Failing to use the term "FULL moon" makes the whole thing meaningless, which it basically is anyway.

friggin cloudy and rained here of course. jerk ass weather.

Maybe it will still look cool tonight.

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim Failing to use the term "FULL moon" makes the whole thing meaningless, which it basically is anyway.

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Originally Posted by Diaphone Jim Garrr! ... The moon, in fact, has been this big and this close every month since 1948 and long before. Failing to use the term "FULL moon" makes the whole thing meaningless, which it basically is anyway.

We have another biggie coming up in December, although not quite this big.

No apologies. It had to be done.

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I was quite disappointed by this, I watched it but couldn't see the difference :/

Jane

Evidently you have to see it close to the horizon to appreciate the difference, Jane. I couldn't see it until it was quite high, but it stuck me as considerably brighter.

glatt:
Darned if you are not right.
I thought that the point of the exercise was the coincidence of the full moon and a close perigee.
Turns out there is a much greater variation in lunar perigees than I knew and I am not really too bad an amateur astronomer.
Supermoon indeed!
Red-faced.

Well, I'm glad you brought it up because I'd heard of lots of disappointment a couple years ago when the internet was saying the moon was going to be like 10 times larger or some crazy thing like that and people were annoyed when it looked exactly the same.

But this time, I saw real astronomy sites talking about how it was a big deal, so when you questioned it, I looked it up. I was glad to have been prompted to look it up. It's pretty cool.

The big moon in Philly...

It was cloudy on the 14th. When was that taken?

Who's a supermooch?

Most everyone!

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Originally Posted by lumberjim It was cloudy on the 14th. When was that taken?