Funny moon tonight...

Noticed, yes, almost thought about stopping and photographing it, but it was
to cold & snowy.

Looked like an eclipse stylee thang, there was a bright crescent effort in
the bottom right corner, with the rest of the moon silouhetted in grey.

 

Did anyone else notice a peculiar moon tonight? You could see the dark
portion... Any ideas as to why this may be?

 

Owen emerged from their own little world to say

Leaning forward too far.

 

Owen wrote

Yeah man.

Dark and light man, shapes in the sky. Mindblowing man.

Oh yeah man.

 

The dark portion is illuminated by earthlight. If you were on the moon, the
earth would appear full, and a lot bigger (and brighter) than the moon does
from the earth. The phenomenon is known as "the old moon in the new moon's
arms" or vice versa, depending on phase.

http://www.stargazing.net/david/moon/day02h17moon.html

 

Knock knock

 

Cool man, you're really hip.

 

On Thursday 02 March 2006 00:53, muddy [] wrote in

You're twisting my melons, man.

 

platypus
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And here's something really cool: it can be used to study the
Earth's climate, by using it as a measure for cloud cover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthshine


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That was my theory, but I didn't know that phrase - nice.

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Quite normal, as explained elsewhere. When there's virtually no moon
it's becasue the sun is pretty much behind it, hence it sets soon
after the sun. Consequently, much of the earth's surface that's facing
it it still in sunlight, so it's a reflection of a reflection, made
more visible because of the almost total absence of directly-reflected
light.

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No, it would be an ecclipse if the sun was behind the earth or if it
was _directly_ behind the moon. "Pretty much behind it" != "completely
in line".

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Drugs?
Aliens?
Alien drugs?


Phil

 

There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all
dark.

 

**You** tell Pink Floyd then.

 

"It is dark, so dark, at the edge of time..."

 

Was that a *whoooooooooooooosh*?

 

Forget the moon.. how about this!

http://tinyurl.com/js6ed

 

More a sort of heartbeat sound repeating to fade.


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Thankyou o sensible poster...