Remember - giant rising moon tonight

[MonkeyFunk]

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/27jun_moonillusion.htm


due to the "moon illusion". The rising moon, just opposite the setting sun, will appear HUGE tonight.

[FedUpWithIt All]

1. I saw this last night...

at the end of the road i was driving down i saw what looked like the moon. It was GIGANTIC. It was the width of the road from our perspective. If you hadn't posted this i would have just chalked it up to one of those weird unexplainables.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully it won't be too cloudy to see.

It's been raining here off and on all day.

[Inchworm]

3. Thanks for the stellar headsup!

I always appreciate the sky.

Thanks!

:yourock:

[supernova]

4. It caught me last night!

It was beautiful and made me think naughty naughty thoughs! ;-)

[Inchworm]

5. East coast showtime begins in about 5 minutes

A great excuse to step outside with a glass of wine.

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear MonkeyFunk!

I am looking forward to seeing it!

Not sure what time it rises here, but I'll have my eyes looking!

I wish I had the proper equipment so I could take a picture of it right after moonrise...

:hi:

[supernova]

8. Tried to get it last night

but when I took the pic, it just looked like a little white pea hanging in the sky, instead of that giant orb that makes you wanna run through the woods naked.

Well, me anyway. :P

:rofl:


(that pic is in the flirt thread. fyi) If you figure out a way to get that effect, tell me what it is!

[Fox Mulder]

7. OMG it's gonna be HUGH!!!!111111111111

[Breeze54]

9. Thats' what my ex used to say.

:P

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. Damnit to hell, I face west....

and will be in dreamland when the moon hits west.

And which is soon!!!

[Inchworm]

11. got sorta skr00d here too

I went out to watch the remembered I live in the woods. Took 4wheeler to a field and realized I was surrounded by fog.

Welcome to the Blue Ridge Mountains hehe...

:hi:

[Arkansas Granny]

12. Darn, no moon tonight, too many clouds. But I saw bats!

There were several swooping around the trees. I haven't noticed any around here in a long time. I hope they're eating lots of mosquitoes. We've had so much rain lately that you can't sit outside without being swarmed.

[BensMom]

13. About moon time

And the June Full Moon is the Strawberry moon.
When the strawberries are ripe.

[xmas74]

14. Too much rain here

and is supposed to rain for another 20 hours so I'll miss it.

This sucks. My daughter and I would normally be on the roof with the telescope.

[lost-in-nj]

15. The moon here in NJ

is incredable...
it has clouds behind it and
clouds going in front of it....
its really nice....



lost

[Kat45]

16. Couldn't see it outside my house, so we drove around looking for it.

We drove quite a bit before we found it. (Either houses or trees blocking the view.) We finally saw it, but we had to look through a veil of clouds to see it and it wasn't quite as low as it had been at peak viewing time. But I have seen one of those huge low moons before. I remember that I was in my car and suddenly this extremely huge, low moon was up ahead. It almost seemed like I was going to drive right into the moon. That was so cool.

[Zomby Woof]

17. And Saturn VERY close to Venus

They will be one degree apart tomorrow night.

The moon has been so bright we could read by it through the window.

[idgiehkt]

18. I missed it, it stormed all night here.

in lieu of the rising moon...