There is an awesome harvest moon out tonight

[Elwood P Dowd]

I live out in the boonies, so it is that much more spectacular. It's so bright I can almost read my newspaper outside.

Do the repukes enjoy events like this? I doubt it.

[lonestarnot]

1. Yes and the teenagers are at homecoming. Hope they all get

home safely.

[never_get_over_it]

2. Yes there is

and I love it.....

[babylonsister]

3. We've been commenting all night on it. It was yellow, and now

the moon is bright bright bright! Lovely!

[JeffR]

4. Of course they do

If you listen closely, they're all out barking at the moon right now.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. They're too busy bending pages over

to enjoy a harvest moon.

[yorkiemommie1]

5. rats! it's overcast right now

but i'll check again later!

[kohodog]

6. I am in a beautiful spot with no city light tonight.

Thought about sleeping in the meadow, but its a bit too chilly without a real sleeping bag.

The sunset was incredible too.

[bdamomma]

7. would I be showing my age, if I started singing

Shine on, Shine on Harvest Moon for me and my gal, (or my guy)

Mitch Miller used to sing that, remember Mitch Miller.

[johnaries]

26. Shine on, shine on Harvest Moon, up in the sky.

I ain't had no lovin' since January, February, June, or July.

Poor Mitch, didn't know the order of the months.
:hi:

[RedEarth]

8. I heard on the news tonight the moon would appear 12% larger

due to the tilt of the earth today....this is the largest it will appear all year.

[karlrschneider]

17. Not really a tilt thing, it's just real close in its elliptical orbit.

:D

[blue4barb]

9. Beautiful-- just walked outside to see it.

[w8liftinglady]

10. ooooohhh...it's beautiful :)

[Dem2theMax]

11. I was out late last night, star and moon gazing.

I live in the boonies as well. So it's always a good night to gaze upward. (Unless it's cloudy. But then, that means rain and we need all we can get. So it's always a good thing.)

Edited to add: Do repukes enjoy doing these things? Well, the last time the Shuttle was up (not most recent mission) the Shuttle was due to fly over my house. So I'm out in the street, walking back and forth, up and down, binoculars in hand. Looking like a fool I might add. The repuke neighbors from across the street drive up and they look at me like I'm from another planet. (I wish.) Asked me what I was doing. Told them, "waiting to see the Shuttle fly by." The looks I got. LOL.

Of course the Shuttle was kind to me and just about then, it flew right over my little corner of the world. Repukes were stunned. I was in seventh heaven. If they'd just listen to Dems ALL the time. LOL.

[smtpgirl]

12. If you can see it, I live in BFE

I live in BFE Montgomery County, MD, it has been raining all day, tried to take pictures, so overcast here

[Blue_In_AK]

13. It was shining here last night

just a brief break between the clouds, and it looked beautiful.

[hollowdweller]

14. We were in our hayfield tonight taking it in.

[karlrschneider]

16. It is an awesome sight...moon is at perigee, larger than usual for

a full moon. All the animules are freaked out here in the boodocks, they can't figure out why it's
so bright outside! :D

[scarletwoman]

18. I watched it rise -- it was gorgeous!

I live in the boonies, too; when the moon was rising earlier this evening, it was amazingly large and beautiful. I was walking outside with one of my dogs, and even he just stopped and stood quietly looking up at the moonrise. It was pretty far out.

What's particularily fun about this full moon (at least at my latitude, approx. 46 degrees N.) is that it traces such a near perfect east-west arc overhead, due to the fact that it is occuring relatively close in time to the recent fall equinox. As winter deepens, the arc of the moon moves north (just as the arc of the sun moves north in the summer), and when there's snow on the ground it REALLY gets bright.

I'm not about to atribute partisanship to the enjoyment of a beautiful full moon. I'm sure that many urban liberals, not blessed by the open view of the sky that we country-dwellers enjoy, are no more aware of the moon than non-liberals. I think that finding delight in the night sky is more a product of location than of politics.

Not everything is political...

sw

[undergroundpanther]

19. Grr It's Raining in maryland

I can't see it.:(

[Warren DeMontague]

20. No, looking up at the night sky is one more reminder that the Earth isn't

flat.

Remember, "Science" is just French for "Satan".

[LouisianaLiberal]

21. It is a beautiful moon.

But if memory serves, October's moon is the Hunter's Moon. The Harvest Moon is in September.

[oneinok]

22. yes, it's very bright

here in Oklahoma i can almost read by the light of this moon.

[Elwood P Dowd]

25. Nope, October gets the honor this year

:)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. Tell me about it!

The electricity went out on my block and my stupid cat snuck out and I spent at least an hour crashing around in the moonlight in my jammies looking for the damn cat.

[Ilsa]

24. I'm in town and there is plenty of haze and clouds, but I can

still see how big and beautiful it is. Awesome. Has anyone tried holding up a tube through which to view the moon? Or if you shape your hand into a cylinder and look at the moon through it, the size makes a slight adjustment, and you see the moon perceptually correctly, without the perceptual impact of the horizon, etc.

[mntleo2]

27. And Its The Middle Of Ramadan

When the waxing new moon comes to full and then back to the new moon, with Venus sitting at its crescent, it is a wonderful time for reflecting on what you can cleanse out of your life and what you have of yourself to give to the world.

I am not of the Islam faith, but have participated in Ramadan and I find it is one of the most endearing of times for finding fellowship with family and loved ones. And the God they worship is my God, a God of peace, a God of love, and a God from out of the mysteries of the universe.

Peace!

Love
Cat In Seattle

[wickerwoman]

28. It's the Mid-Autumn Festival in China.

Families gather together, eat moon cakes and look up at the full moon. Maybe you can pick some up in Chinatown. :-)