Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
You got me beat. I can't imagine anything worse than being stranded in the boonies on a Chicago winter's night! At least living basically in the city, I'm pretty much always on residential roads, not far from a repair shop, mall, or bus stop. - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 1:52:04 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it I feel you, Keith...A big problem I used to have as a cabbie was my alternator going out on me. Not only did I get stranded in the middle of nowhere, it would scramble my meter. Not only did I have to waiti for a tow, I had to get my meter reset. If it happened at night that meant I had to wait until morning and that ruined my entire shift, not to mention I froze my nachos off! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:43 PM Damn near felt like it. Just glad I live a relatively short walk from a mall. Don't trust Sears for doing any serious mechanic work anymore, but I'm okay buying a Diehard battery in a pinch. - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:45:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it You forgot uphill...Both ways... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:29 PM Ha-ha, I hear you! From Christmas until about the second week in January, it was dipping below 20 at night both here and back home in DFW. Daytime highs sometimes not above freezing, and it was windy to boot. Way too much cold for most of us! And don't get me started on the saga of my car battery dying while I'm at home taking care of my flu-infected wife, and me having to tote it and a replacement to and from Sears, trudging half a mile each way in bone chilling cold, bearing that not insignificant weight! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight SPACE.com A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in LondonReuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name . But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works : The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
I feel you, Keith...A big problem I used to have as a cabbie was my alternator going out on me. Not only did I get stranded in the middle of nowhere, it would scramble my meter. Not only did I have to waiti for a tow, I had to get my meter reset. If it happened at night that meant I had to wait until morning and that ruined my entire shift, not to mention I froze my nachos off! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:43 PM Damn near felt like it. Just glad I live a relatively short walk from a mall. Don't trust Sears for doing any serious mechanic work anymore, but I'm okay buying a Diehard battery in a pinch. - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:45:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it You forgot uphill...Both ways... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:29 PM Ha-ha, I hear you! From Christmas until about the second week in January, it was dipping below 20 at night both here and back home in DFW. Daytime highs sometimes not above freezing, and it was windy to boot. Way too much cold for most of us! And don't get me started on the saga of my car battery dying while I'm at home taking care of my flu-infected wife, and me having to tote it and a replacement to and from Sears, trudging half a mile each way in bone chilling cold, bearing that not insignificant weight! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Oh I know you did...Essential battle gear here... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:42 PM Wow, wow, wow, that is cold!! I can tolerate heat all day: summers back home in DFW routinely see daytime highs of 110 -112. But I've always been cold natured. Several subsequent visits to the doctor show my iron is a tad low, which might contribute. And I forgot to mention the scarf, but I indeed had one! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:43:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it No, my friend...cold in Chicago was -24 degrees with a -57 degree wind chill...THAT is cold...I was a cabbie at the time...Oh yeah, you forgot the scarf... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:40 PM The coldest weather i've ever experienced was in Chi-town back in '97, when I was up working on a software project for my then employer. I remember the absolute temperature was -10 F (i had *never* experienced below temps before!). But with the winds off the Lake, chill factors were down to -25 F! Amazing stuff. Having lived there for a time, and having spent several visits there for my project, I was by then knowledgeable of how to dress: five layers of clothing on my torso (t-shirt, thermal shirt, flannel shirt, sweater, coat), thermal leggings underneath my jeans, thermal socks, two hats to enclose ears as well as head, full facial covering. Believe it or not, I actually walked around downtown for two hours in that. I was staying in a hotel near State street, so there was lots of stuff to see. A year ago I accompanied my wife to training in Boston in January, and temps dropped to 8 F, it snowed, and the winds were fierce. Really, really bad--but not as bad as that time in Chicago... - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight
RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Keith, I've already posted mine. IMO, we're in Fodor's Cosmic Travel Guide. Our listing? Keep going. Just keep going. _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469230/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
No I don’t think that is corny at all. I think the same thing or thought the same thing when I was a kid. The only thing that I wonder is if there is someone on another planet somewhere out there that is wondering the same thing as we are as well. --Lavender If all truths were knowable, then all truths are in fact known. From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:48 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Yes indeed. Whenever I go outside, no matter how cold, I can't help but take a moment to stare at the Moon and stars if there's no cloud cover. Been looking up and wondering, dreaming, wishing for as long as I can remember. When I was a wee lad of nine or so, i used to take my dad's flashlight, point it into the nighttime sky, and leave it on for a long time. I had just discovered the concept of the light year, and was absolutely fascinated by the thought that the photons from my flashlight beam would still be hurtling toward those stars decades later. Even now, corny as it may sound, i get a thrill out of thinking that one of my light particles is hurtling through space thirty-plus lightyears from me. Often I'd flash Morse code with the flashlight, in my naive youth expecting that someday some advanced alien race would catch the two or three of my photons that managed to get out to them and then interpret SOS as something meaningful! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:46:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Even in one of those Chicago winter?? Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:26 PM It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
I tend to think so. I think there are several good reasons why we haven't contacted intelligent extraterrestrial life. I compiled a list a while back, i'll drop it sometime. - Original Message - From: Rogue n1ro...@aol.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:44:48 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it No I don’t think that is corny at all. I think the same thing or thought the same thing when I was a kid. The only thing that I wonder is if there is someone on another planet somewhere out there that is wondering the same thing as we are as well. --Lavender If all truths were knowable, then all truths are in fact known. From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Keith Johnson Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 12:48 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Yes indeed. Whenever I go outside, no matter how cold, I can't help but take a moment to stare at the Moon and stars if there's no cloud cover. Been looking up and wondering, dreaming, wishing for as long as I can remember. When I was a wee lad of nine or so, i used to take my dad's flashlight, point it into the nighttime sky, and leave it on for a long time. I had just discovered the concept of the light year, and was absolutely fascinated by the thought that the photons from my flashlight beam would still be hurtling toward those stars decades later. Even now, corny as it may sound, i get a thrill out of thinking that one of my light particles is hurtling through space thirty-plus lightyears from me. Often I'd flash Morse code with the flashlight, in my naive youth expecting that someday some advanced alien race would catch the two or three of my photons that managed to get out to them and then interpret SOS as something meaningful! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:46:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Even in one of those Chicago winter?? Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:26 PM It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Might've been an altitude thing. Lithonia is a little higher up than Atlanta. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/
RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390706/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain...Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse. So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated. The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year. The moon illusion Finally, be sure to get out and see the full moon as it rises, right around sunset. Along the horizon, the moon tends to seem even bigger. This is just an illusion. You can prove to yourself that this is an illusion. Taking a small object such as a pencil eraser, hold it at arm's length, and compare its size to that of the moon just as it rises. Then repeat the experiment later in the night and you'll see that the moon compares the same in both cases. Alternately, snap two photos of the moon, with a digital camera or your cell phone, when the moon is near the horizon and later when it's higher in the sky. Pull both photos up on your computer screen and make a side-by-side comparison. Astronomers and psychologists agree the moon illusion is just that, but they don't agree on how to explain it
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Not good astronomy weather, I know. Not much better here in Georgia, though. Expecting a low of 22 tonight. _ Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
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Ha-ha, I hear you! From Christmas until about the second week in January, it was dipping below 20 at night both here and back home in DFW. Daytime highs sometimes not above freezing, and it was windy to boot. Way too much cold for most of us! And don't get me started on the saga of my car battery dying while I'm at home taking care of my flu-infected wife, and me having to tote it and a replacement to and from Sears, trudging half a mile each way in bone chilling cold, bearing that not insignificant weight! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain...Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight SPACE.com A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in LondonReuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name . But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works : The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com . As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: • A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides . This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. • Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. • In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse . So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated. • The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year. The moon illusion Finally, be sure to get out and see the full moon as it rises, right around sunset. Along the horizon, the moon tends to seem even bigger. This is just an illusion. You can prove to yourself that this is an illusion. Taking a small object such as a pencil eraser, hold it at arm's length, and compare its size to that of the moon just as it rises. Then repeat the experiment later in the night and you'll see that the moon compares the same in both cases. Alternately, snap two photos of the moon, with a digital camera or your cell phone, when the moon is near the horizon and later when it's
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
No, my friend...cold in Chicago was -24 degrees with a -57 degree wind chill...THAT is cold...I was a cabbie at the time...Oh yeah, you forgot the scarf... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:40 PM The coldest weather i've ever experienced was in Chi-town back in '97, when I was up working on a software project for my then employer. I remember the absolute temperature was -10 F (i had *never* experienced below temps before!). But with the winds off the Lake, chill factors were down to -25 F! Amazing stuff. Having lived there for a time, and having spent several visits there for my project, I was by then knowledgeable of how to dress: five layers of clothing on my torso (t-shirt, thermal shirt, flannel shirt, sweater, coat), thermal leggings underneath my jeans, thermal socks, two hats to enclose ears as well as head, full facial covering. Believe it or not, I actually walked around downtown for two hours in that. I was staying in a hotel near State street, so there was lots of stuff to see. A year ago I accompanied my wife to training in Boston in January, and temps dropped to 8 F, it snowed, and the winds were fierce. Really, really bad--but not as bad as that time in Chicago... - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
You forgot uphill...Both ways... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:29 PM Ha-ha, I hear you! From Christmas until about the second week in January, it was dipping below 20 at night both here and back home in DFW. Daytime highs sometimes not above freezing, and it was windy to boot. Way too much cold for most of us! And don't get me started on the saga of my car battery dying while I'm at home taking care of my flu-infected wife, and me having to tote it and a replacement to and from Sears, trudging half a mile each way in bone chilling cold, bearing that not insignificant weight! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight Reuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name. But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works: The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com. As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides. This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost. If they're perfectly aligned, Earth casts a shadow on the moon and there's a total lunar eclipse. So during what we call a full moon, the moon's face is actually slightly less than 100 percent illuminated. The moon is moving away as you read this, by about 1.6 inches (4 cm) a year. The moon illusion Finally, be sure to get out and see the full moon as it rises, right around sunset. Along the horizon, the moon tends to seem even bigger. This is just an illusion. You can prove to yourself that this is an illusion. Taking a small object such as a pencil eraser, hold it at arm's length
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Even in one of those Chicago winter?? Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:26 PM It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
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Wow, wow, wow, that is cold!! I can tolerate heat all day: summers back home in DFW routinely see daytime highs of 110 -112. But I've always been cold natured. Several subsequent visits to the doctor show my iron is a tad low, which might contribute. And I forgot to mention the scarf, but I indeed had one! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:43:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it No, my friend...cold in Chicago was -24 degrees with a -57 degree wind chill...THAT is cold...I was a cabbie at the time...Oh yeah, you forgot the scarf... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:40 PM The coldest weather i've ever experienced was in Chi-town back in '97, when I was up working on a software project for my then employer. I remember the absolute temperature was -10 F (i had *never* experienced below temps before!). But with the winds off the Lake, chill factors were down to -25 F! Amazing stuff. Having lived there for a time, and having spent several visits there for my project, I was by then knowledgeable of how to dress: five layers of clothing on my torso (t-shirt, thermal shirt, flannel shirt, sweater, coat), thermal leggings underneath my jeans, thermal socks, two hats to enclose ears as well as head, full facial covering. Believe it or not, I actually walked around downtown for two hours in that. I was staying in a hotel near State street, so there was lots of stuff to see. A year ago I accompanied my wife to training in Boston in January, and temps dropped to 8 F, it snowed, and the winds were fierce. Really, really bad--but not as bad as that time in Chicago... - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight SPACE.com A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in LondonReuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name . But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works : The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com . As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Damn near felt like it. Just glad I live a relatively short walk from a mall. Don't trust Sears for doing any serious mechanic work anymore, but I'm okay buying a Diehard battery in a pinch. - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:45:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it You forgot uphill...Both ways... Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:29 PM Ha-ha, I hear you! From Christmas until about the second week in January, it was dipping below 20 at night both here and back home in DFW. Daytime highs sometimes not above freezing, and it was windy to boot. Way too much cold for most of us! And don't get me started on the saga of my car battery dying while I'm at home taking care of my flu-infected wife, and me having to tote it and a replacement to and from Sears, trudging half a mile each way in bone chilling cold, bearing that not insignificant weight! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2002@ yahoo.com To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:37:40 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it It's 6 degrees here in Chicago...rain. ..Hmph! Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net Subject: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it To: scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 3:00 PM And here it'll be cloudy and rainy tonight in the ATL... :( Oh well, it's great to read about, and I really dig the different full moon names from Native culture. * * http://news. yahoo.com/ s/space/20100129 /sc_space/ biggestandbright estfullmoonof201 0tonight http://www.space. com/spacewatch/ full-moon- names-2010- 100127.html Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight SPACE.com A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in LondonReuters – A full moon is seen over the Houses of Parliament in London January 1, 2010. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez … Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director SPACE.com Robert Roy Britt editorial Director space.com – Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon. This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name . But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works : The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other. So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year. Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather. com . As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object. Full moon craziness Many people think full moons cause strange behavior among animals and even humans. In fact several studies over the years have tried to tie lunar phases to births, heart attacks, deaths, suicides, violence, psychiatric hospital admissions and epileptic seizures, and more. Connections have been inclusive or nonexistent. The moon does have some odd effects on our planet, and there are oodles of other amazing moon facts and misconceptions: • A full moon at perigee also brings higher ocean tides . This tug of the moon on Earth also creates tides in the planet's crust, not just in the oceans. • Beaches are more polluted during full moon, owing to the higher tides. • In reality, there's no such thing as a full moon. The full moon occurs when the sun, Earth and the moon are all lined up, almost
Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it
Yes indeed. Whenever I go outside, no matter how cold, I can't help but take a moment to stare at the Moon and stars if there's no cloud cover. Been looking up and wondering, dreaming, wishing for as long as I can remember. When I was a wee lad of nine or so, i used to take my dad's flashlight, point it into the nighttime sky, and leave it on for a long time. I had just discovered the concept of the light year, and was absolutely fascinated by the thought that the photons from my flashlight beam would still be hurtling toward those stars decades later. Even now, corny as it may sound, i get a thrill out of thinking that one of my light particles is hurtling through space thirty-plus lightyears from me. Often I'd flash Morse code with the flashlight, in my naive youth expecting that someday some advanced alien race would catch the two or three of my photons that managed to get out to them and then interpret SOS as something meaningful! - Original Message - From: C.W. Badie astromancer2...@yahoo.com To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:46:54 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it Even in one of those Chicago winter?? Such music flows on the Fringe, and no one can resist singing to Scarlet From THE SIDE STREET CHRONICLES by C.W. Badie --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: From: Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular--if you can see it To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Date: Friday, January 29, 2010, 4:26 PM It was already cloudy here, or maybe I was just groggy from having to drive all the way up to Alpharetta in the pre-dawn cold, and just didn't notice. Nah, can't be that: i never fail to notice the moon and stars, no matter how tired i am. - Original Message - From: Martin Baxter truthseeker013@ hotmail.com To: SciFiNoir2 scifino...@yahoogro ups.com Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 4:10:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: RE: [scifinoir2] Wolf Moon Tonight to be Spectacular- -if you can see it Keith, I glimpsed the Moon this morning when I was putting the trash out for pickup, and it was a whopper then, just barely above the treetops. Despite the cold, I stood and stared. Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now.
