The Moon is Amazing Tonight.......

[studio1087]

I took these with my iphone. The moon is so huge this evening that I could get shots like this with a phone camera.

My land is in the woods right in the center of this shot....



Another......



It should be black outside and you can just walk around and see everything. You could hunt in this moonlight.

I'm tempted to put a good camera on a tripod and take some pictures. I have never been able to take a photo of the moon with a crappy camera phone.

I know beans about this stuff but it's very weird outside. It's cool. I've lived here since 1994 and I have never seen an evening this bright.

Neat stuff.

John

[Suttykins]

you know..

I find it rather humbling that all over the world we have this natural thing that's still as amazing now as it must have been for the cavemen

it's hard to explain but like it's seems to be the one thing that we all share but have no posession over..

if you get me?

s'trippy maaaan

[bluesfordan]

Yet I wonder how many people will not even give it any mind at all tonight? Thanks for reminding me. The Full Corn Moon, this one is called. I love the moon, it is so cool. This huge honking rock, that's been circling our planet for billions of years. Yes, supposedly the mystery has been removed from its aura, but think about it. The mere fact that it is there at all, and that it behaves the way it does, and exerts influence upon life on earth, is just freaking amazing.

I love to go for walks in winter during the full moon. I do not care how cold it is. There was one apartment I had, that was next door to rail road tracks. Trains rarely used that track, and I think it was never plowed during the two winters I spent at that place. There is a stillness that is hard to imagine.

[getbent]

it was last night too... I got home from playing about midnight and swam for quite awhile in the moonlight... the pool is about 84º (I left the solar on today) so it will be awesome tonight too.

[studio1087]

Winter is especially cool because the moonlight hits the snow and lights up the snowy ground. I have a 5 acre field behind my home that has about 400 Christmas trees planted in a pattern. I didn't plant them, the prior owner did. I love walking back there in winter when the moon is full because you can see all the rows clearly in the middle of the night. It is beautiful and strange.

Moonlight on fresh snow acts like a lamp. The light amplifies on the white.

I often wonder if one could canoe or kayak quietly in that level of moonlight. I'm sure that our ancestors hunted in that level of moonlight. How rare of an opportunity to be able to see at night without artificial light.

It's very cool. Makes you stop and think.

[TJNY]

I was outside tonight and enjoyed a nice little fire, a few beers and smores with the kids. The moon made it that much better.....

[Larry F]

We've had a similar moon here.

[stxrus]

completely overcast here with the pasing of Erika

lots of needed rain but no moon tonight

steve

[Telakaster]

I'm a bona fide lunatic! This was the August moon north of Toronto.

[Buckocaster51]

Full moon near the equinox.

It rose almost due west.

We opened up a brand new football stadium tonight.

On the banks of the Mississippi.

We watched the moon rise over the river.

I was doing the stadium announcing and didn't have time to snap a photo.

Take my word for it.

It was groovy!

[stevieboy]

Last night I had a look at it, looked quite yellow--a lot of smoke in the atmosphere these days in LA. Just had a look, it was back to its clear, whiter and brighter looking old self. It's higher in the sky than when I saw it last night, and the smoke is gradually diminishing as well.

[Mid Life Crisis]

Funny reading this because last night as I was taking the dog for a walk I noticed how big the Moon looked here (in the UK) too.

This was about 8.00 PM, twilight, and the Moon was huge and orange, glowing through a hazy sky.

[cowboytwang]

We were having thunder storms Fri evening just as the full moon was rising in the east. I was out on the porch trying to get a pic of the moon & lightning together but my phone camera just isn't quick enough.

I did get a couple of shots with the moon trying to peak out of the storm clouds.

[TG]

Ever wonder why the moon looks so much larger when it's on the horizon than when it's high in the sky?

It's mainly psychological. We can judge distance and size looking horizontally since there are things to compare. A large tree that can be seen on a distant hill is a tiny looking, but we know it's 'big'. Mountains on the far horizon are small but we know they are big because we can see them from such a distance.
The moon is beyond the horizon and is therefore very far away and very large.

But looking up we only have the sun...which we don't look at too closely...stars, birds and clouds. No sense of distance and the moon doesn't stand out size-wise compared to them anyway. A looming thundercloud impresses us more, and it has to nearly fill the whole sky to do it.

[Eric Karonen]

One of my fondest memories from the 70s is renting a cabin a hundred miles north of Winnipeg on New Year's Eve, sharing a bottle of champagne at midnight, and then heading out to cross-country ski around a lake in the moonlight. I think I may have picked up a little tan that evening ... it was so bright.

And I like a full moon when I'm up north here in Ontario, particularly when I have to go out for a squirt.

[Kebmel]

You can almost read a book by moonlight down here, it's that bright.