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    Space - Super big/bright moon tonight

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7779294.stm
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    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.

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    Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to check it out.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    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
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by hellsing View Post
    i looked up and saw the moon, bight white, with a luminescent white ring around it...
    Uh oh, you know what that means?



    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that
    Yeah, there's no moon out where I'm at.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that
    This is a stupid question, but the large moon would show here as well....right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Guess what! It's cloudy here in the UK! What were the chances of that
    Cloudy here too!

    If any gets a pic of it, do post.
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    Did anyone catch mars and venus aligned? Wont see it again for another 300 years!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cody View Post
    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.
    "The bumps you feel are asteroids smashing into the hull."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike70 View Post
    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
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Bass - the moon here was bigger than normal this evening. Noticed it at around 5 p.m.
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    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.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany
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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    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
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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    Quote Originally Posted by Neil View Post
    Cloudy all night
    Yep, pishing it down all night as well. Our barometer is set to "Stormy".
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    not a cloud in the sky, but no moon either for me!

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