That´s something else, it´s the general description of the reflectivity
of a planet. I think it is 0.39 for earth.
I´m not sure that I agree Jostein that the albedo increases during
winter. I though we were able see the Dark side of the moon because
of the clear, clean air and low sun during
Hi,
Monday, September 22, 2003, 2:58:34 AM, you wrote:
To me at least, Once in a blue moon always meant rarely, not never
Indeed. And that would be true for all of us alive today.
I've always taken it to mean 'never'. Perhaps you have more blue moons
on your side of the ocean blue.
Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 4:27 AM
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
both cited definitions on the URL are wrong. i cited a reference from
1528.
that is the earliest any English scholars knew of from my reference put
out
in 1946. the moon is made
- Original Message -
From: Dag T [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not that hard Vbg
Check this one out:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1769453
I don´t know the name in English, but translated from Norwegian it´s
called ash light.
I think Earthshine is the English term.
Quite
Earthshine = Earth albedo.
Regards,
Bob...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine
and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
-Martin Luther
From: Jostein [EMAIL
Amita Guha wrote:
Thanks to you fine folks, I finally got a decent shot of the moon:
http://www.beyondthepath.com/photos/misc/moon.jpg
400mm, f/5.6, didn't record the speed but it was probably 1/250 or
1/500.
Amita
woo woo you sure did! congrats!
ann the envious
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Blue Moon (think that is a *real* oldie)
Shine On Harvest Moon
Moonlight Becomes Her (Hmmm, maybe not a song title.)
Moon Over Miami
Sheesh, they are all oldies.
Marnie aka Doe
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Blue Moon (think that is a *real* oldie)
A blue moon occurs as the second full moon in a calendar month
pointless trivia
Kevin
--
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Huh? Gimme a break!
Regards,
Bob...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine
and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
-Martin Luther
From: Herb Chong [EMAIL
-Original Message-
From: Mark Cassino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 9:00 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: my first moon shot
At 07:05 PM 9/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
I did a moon shot a couple of years ago with my
1000mm F8 tele-takumar
Mark, thanks for the inspiration. I'm now going to put my 2x
teleconverter on my 400mm next time the moon is out. g
One of my few attempts at shooting the moon - using a 500mm
Takumar, 2x
converter and 1.4x converter for a total of 1400mm. The converters
took abite out of the sharpness,
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)
Moon at the Window (Joni Mitchell)
(I posted this earlier but it didn't seem to make it through)
--
Mark Roberts
Photography and writing
Message -
From: Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Huh? Gimme a break!
Regards,
Bob...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object
Anyone remember the tv show Moonlighting? It had a theme song by Al
Jarreau. g
Blue Moon (think that is a *real* oldie)
Shine On Harvest Moon
Moonlight Becomes Her (Hmmm, maybe not a song title.)
Moon Over Miami
Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that is the new definition ever since the atmosphere has gotten polluted
enough not to see a real blue moon.
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A blue moon occurs as the second full moon in a calendar month
The Allegany Mountains are the westernmost range of the Appalachians.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are the Easternmost. Now for a quiz. Who can
name all the ranges in the Appalachian Mountains. Not individual
mountains just the ranges.
I'll try:
Catskills
Berkshires
Adirondaks
White Mountains
-Original Message-
From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
you don't know the history of the term once in a blue moon. it was
literally a blue
Moonlight Serenade, Moonlight in Vermont, Moon Over Miami
Bill
-Original Message-
From: Mark Roberts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 11:10 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone think of any
Cite!
Cult (essentially pseudo pagan) reference...
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~BLUEMAGI/blue-moon-history.html
Pseudo scientific reference.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/moonbluemoon.html
Real scientific reference (cut and paste).
C:\Documents and Settings\Robert
If you eat breakfast at Denny's Restaurants, that would be Moons Over My
Hammy
Regards,
Bob...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine
and women. Shall we then prohibit and
Hi,
Sunday, September 21, 2003, 4:12:52 PM, you wrote:
Bob Blakely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
that is the new definition ever since the atmosphere has gotten polluted
enough not to see a real blue moon.
From: Kevin Waterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A blue
Sorry, that would be...
Cite!
Cult (essentially pseudo pagan) reference...
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~BLUEMAGI/blue-moon-history.html
Pseudo scientific reference.
http://www.angelfire.com/realm2/amethystbt/moonbluemoon.html
Real scientific reference (cut and paste).
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Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)
Moon at the Window (Joni Mitchell)
(I posted this earlier but it didn't seem to make it through)
--
Mark Roberts
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Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Chris Stoddart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)
Moon at the Window (Joni Mitchell)
(I posted this earlier but it didn't seem to make it through)
--
Mark Roberts
On 21/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged:
Anyone think of any other Moon Songs that could be photographed?
Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield)
Moon at the Window (Joni Mitchell)
Penumbra Moon (Justin Hayward)
Cheers,
Cotty
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ANother cite (which says you are both right):
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blue%20moon
At 08:55 AM 9/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Cite!
Cult (essentially pseudo pagan) reference...
http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~BLUEMAGI/blue-moon-history.html
Pseudo scientific reference.
More about blue moons than you ever wanted to know:
http://www.griffithobs.org/IPSBlueMoon.html
Now I don't want to hear about the subject again in a blue moon
(original meaning). :)
Herb Chong wrote:
you don't know the history of the term once in a blue moon. it was
literally a blue moon and
That would be a tough one to photograph, though. vbg
-frank
Dag T wrote:
Dark side of the moon
--
Hell is others
-Jean Paul Sartre
Hi, Amita,
Tom and I have been going at it off-list. He came up with some others, but
that would be cheating. That's the only American one that I came up with
that wasn't on your list was Poconos. Don't forget, the Appalachians go up
into Canada as well. The Laurentians of Quebec are the
That would be a tough one to photograph, though. vbg
-frank
Dag T wrote:
Dark side of the moon
A new career for you, frank. Rabbit-eared astronaut!
Marnie aka Doe
Not that hard Vbg
Check this one out:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1769453
I don´t know the name in English, but translated from Norwegian it´s
called ash light. It is fairly common with a thin moon just before
or after sunrise or sunset, and shows the surface of the moon lit by
- Original Message -
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
I'm not for one moment questioning that. I was merely referring to the
widely-held belief that a blue moon is the second moon
-Original Message-
From: Herb Chong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 8:05 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
well, then you and i both remember the older meaning. i was very surprised
to hear the first time that it meant the second
well, then you and i both remember the older meaning. i was very surprised
to hear the first time that it meant the second full moon in a month. that
happens all the time by comparison the original definition. the new
meaning was represented to me as having meant that for a long time.
Herb
I
To me at least, Once in a blue moon always meant rarely, not never
Indeed. And that would be true for all of us alive today.
But according to at least one source the original meaning
some centuries ago was closer to never than rarely.
That's not certain, but dealing with meaning shift
To me at least, Once in a blue moon always meant rarely, not never
About once very two and a half years.
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010302.html
Indeed. And that would be true for all of us alive today.
But according to at least one source the original meaning
some centuries ago was
From: John Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm not for one moment questioning that. I was merely referring to the
widely-held belief that a blue moon is the second moon in a calendar
month.
That's only been around for a decade or two.
Regards,
Bob...
About 6 decades...
Regards,
Bob...
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine
and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
-Martin Luther
From: John Francis [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
About once very two and a half years.
http://ask.yahoo.com/ask/20010302.html
Hmm. I wonder just how old the phrase is. Anyone with an
OED care to look up the earliest collected reference?
- Original Message -
From: Jim Apilado
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Good shot. Why not try a few shots of the Harvest Moon at moonrise. Wish
I
knew when a Harvest Moon is.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast11sep_2.htm
William Robb
Very nice. I'm still working to get this one right (sigh). Whenever I
notice the moon is full, I try to get out there with that 500 mm mirror
of mine and a tripod, but a shot this good has been elusive so far.
Steven Desjardins
Department of Chemistry
Washington and Lee University
Lexington,
Harvest time ;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/19/03 10:37PM
Good shot. Why not try a few shots of the Harvest Moon at moonrise.
Wish I
knew when a Harvest Moon is.
Jim A.
From: Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:07:17 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By the Light of the Silvery Moon. Moon River.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/20/03 07:32AM
Here's a photo essay for Amita:
Moons from songs.
Harvest Moon, Allegheny Moon, Blue Moon. My mind's blank now, but
there must be
more.
I've camped in the Alleghenies many times (Allegheny State Park in New
Moon Song
by Arlo Guthrie
©1996 Arloco Music
Beneath this balcony of stars
Beyond the searchlight stage where we've become
The stuff of time amid the waves
Whose nets are cast along the shore when day is done
As the seabird flies aboce
My songs are sung to those I've come to love
The petals
What are you paying for that information, Frank?
Free sample: Silvery Moon.
The Allegany Mountains are the westernmost range of the Appalachians.
The Blue Ridge Mountains are the Easternmost. Now for a quiz. Who can
name all the ranges in the Appalachian Mountains. Not individual
mountains
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com
-Original Message-
From: Doug Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: my first moon shot
On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 22:21:24 -0400, J. C. O'Connell wrote:
You are right. the moon is typically 0.5 degrees
in the sky. according to my calculations it would
take more like 2400mm to fillm the fram vertically!
WOW thats a hell of a long lens
I think the rule of thumb is 1mm on film for
Wow! Way cool, Amita.
Sometimes wasting time reading pdml pays dividends, eh? vbg
Seriously, wonderful shot.
cheers,
frank
Amita Guha wrote:
Thanks to you fine folks, I finally got a decent shot of the moon:
http://www.beyondthepath.com/photos/misc/moon.jpg
400mm, f/5.6, didn't record
At 4:07 PM -0400 9/19/03, Amita Guha wrote:
Thanks to you fine folks, I finally got a decent shot of the moon:
http://www.beyondthepath.com/photos/misc/moon.jpg
400mm, f/5.6, didn't record the speed but it was probably 1/250 or
1/500.
Looks good! The moon is a surprisingly difficult subject.
--
Good job - amazing how bright it is and how fast it moves, eh?
- MCC
At 04:07 PM 9/19/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Thanks to you fine folks, I finally got a decent shot of the moon:
http://www.beyondthepath.com/photos/misc/moon.jpg
400mm, f/5.6, didn't record the speed but it was probably 1/250 or
Good shot. Why not try a few shots of the Harvest Moon at moonrise. Wish I
knew when a Harvest Moon is.
Jim A.
From: Amita Guha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:07:17 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: my first moon shot
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-Original Message-
From: Jim Apilado [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 10:38 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: my first moon shot
Good shot. Why not try a few shots of the Harvest Moon at moonrise. Wish I
Hi!
Goes straight to my knowledge base.
Thanks for sharing.
Boris
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AG Thanks to you fine folks, I finally got a decent shot of the moon:
AG http://www.beyondthepath.com/photos/misc/moon.jpg
AG 400mm, f/5.6, didn't record the speed but it
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