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Neil
12-Dec-2008, 04:36 PM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7779294.stm
Danny
12-Dec-2008, 05:26 PM
actually when i was taking the garbage out back at work i looked up and saw the moon, bight white, with a luminescent white ring around it, not near its edge, but a good distance away, like a rainbow.
bassman
12-Dec-2008, 05:34 PM
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.
Neil
12-Dec-2008, 06:45 PM
Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.

Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that :rolleyes:
capncnut
12-Dec-2008, 06:49 PM
i looked up and saw the moon, bight white, with a luminescent white ring around it...
Uh oh, you know what that means?

http://www.ugo.com/images/galleries/werewolfguide_filmtv/1.jpg


Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that :rolleyes:
Yeah, there's no moon out where I'm at. :(
bassman
12-Dec-2008, 07:48 PM
Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that :rolleyes:

This is a stupid question, but the large moon would show here as well....right?:shifty:
MinionZombie
12-Dec-2008, 08:18 PM
Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that :rolleyes:
Cloudy here too! :(

If any gets a pic of it, do post. :)
Cody
12-Dec-2008, 08:36 PM
Did anyone catch mars and venus aligned? Wont see it again for another 300 years!
Mike70
12-Dec-2008, 09:19 PM
Did anyone catch mars and venus aligned? Wont see it again for another 300 years!

yes! as some of you might have guessed i am hugely interested in astronomy. so i make it a point to check out all cool sky goings on.
Neil
12-Dec-2008, 11:02 PM
yes! as some of you might have guessed i am hugely interested in astronomy. so i make it a point to check out all cool sky goings on.

Like Venus and Jupiter in the evening sky at the moment :)
DawnGirl27
13-Dec-2008, 02:40 AM
Bass - the moon here was bigger than normal this evening. Noticed it at around 5 p.m.
AcesandEights
13-Dec-2008, 03:58 AM
I saw her tonight
She was wonderful, beautiful.
I've always thought Luna
Was the ultimate muse.

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This post done in 'Kortick' style. ;)
Neil
13-Dec-2008, 10:10 AM
I saw her tonight
She was wonderful, beautiful.
I've always thought Luna
Was the ultimate muse.

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This post done in 'Kortick' style. ;)

Cloudy all night :(
MinionZombie
13-Dec-2008, 10:51 AM
Cloudy all night :(
Yep, pishing it down all night as well. Our barometer is set to "Stormy".
Danny
13-Dec-2008, 04:09 PM
not a cloud in the sky, but no moon either for me!:eek:
MaximusIncredulous
13-Dec-2008, 04:48 PM
All I could get was this horrible picture when it was high in the sky:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/5813/moonar6.gif
Neil
13-Dec-2008, 06:14 PM
All I could get was this horrible picture when it was high in the sky:

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/5813/moonar6.gif

Come on! Admit it! That's just a torch aint it!
MikePizzoff
13-Dec-2008, 06:34 PM
I was playing a show in the city so I completely forgot to look in the sky... even if I had looked up, I probably wouldn't of seen it considering I was surrounded by skyscrapers.
MaximusIncredulous
13-Dec-2008, 09:47 PM
Come on! Admit it! That's just a torch aint it!

:lol:

Naa, it's the moon but the camera I had was not up to the task.
DeadJonas190
14-Dec-2008, 06:17 AM
I saw that on Friday, it was the best part of my night. I was driving home from the ex-girlfriends house after swapping back our things and at one point the clouds parted and the moon was showing. It was an impressive sight.
bassman
15-Dec-2008, 03:50 PM
I saw it on Friday. I could see everything outside like it was the middle of the day.:eek:

I forgot to mention it to my partner and on her way home from shopping she calls me and says "Look at the moon. It's going to hit us!!!":lol:

She was obviously joking but I found it funny..
capncnut
15-Dec-2008, 03:56 PM
Moonrise from the 4200 ft summit of Lick Observatory, San Jose, California, Dec 12. Too big to post here so here's the link.

Clicky (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081212.html).
Neil
16-Dec-2008, 11:57 AM
Moonrise from the 4200 ft summit of Lick Observatory, San Jose, California, Dec 12. Too big to post here so here's the link.

Clicky (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081212.html).

Bet that wasn't taken with MaximusIncredulous' camera!
3pidemiC
16-Dec-2008, 02:21 PM
Geese. Honestly, I looked at it that night and did not notice anything different besides it being a little brighter. Maybe it was the night before?
MaximusIncredulous
17-Dec-2008, 03:45 AM
Bet that wasn't taken with MaximusIncredulous' camera!

I swear I'll get a good moon shot one day.
ProfessorChaos
17-Dec-2008, 03:52 AM
Moonrise from the 4200 ft summit of Lick Observatory, San Jose, California, Dec 12. Too big to post here so here's the link.

Clicky (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081212.html).

i know this is kinda off-topic, but i'm pretty sure that the Lick Observatory is found in GTA: San Andreas:cool:
Yojimbo
19-Dec-2008, 01:46 AM
Saw it last weekend! Awesome, though I did not catch the thread until later so I didn't know that I was looking at an especially bright moon, but my wife and I did notice the moon and commented on it since it was shining through the cloud layer and had a ring around it (my grandmother always said that was an indication that a big-ass storm was on it's way - old wives tale, perhaps, but funny thing is there was a big-ass storm here a few days later.