Holy Giant Moon

Just looked outside through the upstairs window in my house and saw what I thought was the pub that I work at on fire!! A massive orangey/red growth on top of the roof! Then to my amazement (and slight disappointment) I realised it was actually the moon! It's fucking MASSIVE!! Why does this happen? It's so beautiful...expect some pictures when it gets high enough to take some.

cool story bro etc...

I SAW IT TOO! I could feel it's beams tugging at me. I always love a full moon.

look for an orangey looking star above it, its mars

Just looked out again and its kinda shrunk, still huge compared to normal, but its lost the orange tint, now its a brilliant white colour.

There is a really bright white dot quite a bit above it...I'm guessing that's Mars.

wolf moon

http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names

I want to see the moon! But that would involve going outside and it's freaking cold. Is it full? Is that why tempers are running so high around this place?

  On 1/30/2010 at 7:56 PM, chaosmachine said:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100129-biggest-full-moon-2010-mars/

LOL I love how that article has a picture of the moon over Vancouver Island. The cloud cover here was so thick last night you could barely see the moon.

It was Crazy .. People were turning into Benicio Del Toro

Interesting, i'm in the states I guess I won't be able to see it till tonight?

Pictures please.

Its very impressive tonight, I don't know if its actually any bigger? I though that was just an optical illusion

Pics or it didnt happen.

color me wtf -- i saw it too.

i was like, jeez, is it still twilight at 9:30? no, the moon.

later, i thought some car was in our driveway with headlights -- no, the moon, reflecting off car windshields. like a halogen that sucka wuz

I am now absolutely confident for the next BOC album this year.

the image of the moon isn't actually bigger. it's an optical illusion. it just looks bigger because it's near the horizon, so you have points of reference to compare it to, and it makes your brain feel differently about its size.

measure it. it's true. ruler out at arms-length, and be amazed.

and it's redder when near the horizon because the light is travelling through more atmosphere, and atmosphere scatters blue light more easily.

the moon does change size in the sky, but you wouldn't really notice, and it takes much longer for the size change to occur, because its apparent size is related to its distance to earth, which changes as it orbits the earth (takes approx 1 month).

  On 1/30/2010 at 6:53 PM, placidburp said:

Just looked outside through the upstairs window in my house and saw what I thought was the pub that I work at on fire!! A massive orangey/red growth on top of the roof! Then to my amazement (and slight disappointment) I realised it was actually the moon! It's fucking MASSIVE!! Why does this happen? It's so beautiful...expect some pictures when it gets high enough to take some.

 

cool story bro etc...

 

 

The moon is the biggest optical illusion ever.

The moon is seen every night

she said so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2ZuPh-swpA

Wow, even I know it's Jupiter.

Moon looked normal to me

Took a picture last night, turned out pretty good.

it was a three wolf moon eh?

Clouds don't allow me to testify this amazing astronomical event.

  On 1/30/2010 at 8:51 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

Its very impressive tonight, I don't know if its actually any bigger? I though that was just an optical illusion

i loved it on here when everyone got excited about that red moon party. That was funny.