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Biggest moon ever here

moshquerade

moshquerade

No Lifer
You can see it tonight. If you don't have cloud coverage. :moon:

Year's biggest full moon lights up sky
Watch out for werewolves: Huge moon will rise around sunset

updated 1 hour, 37 minutes ago

The full moon tonight will be the biggest one of the year as Earth's natural satellite reaches its closest point to our planet.

Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases. The moon makes a trip around Earth every 29.5 days. But the orbit is not a perfect circle.

The moon's average distance from us is about 238,855 miles (384,400 km). Tonight it will be just 221,560 miles (356,567 km) away. It will be 14 percent bigger in our sky and 30 percent brighter than some other full moons during the year, according to NASA.

Tides will be higher tonight, too. Earth's oceans are pulled by the gravity of the moon and the sun. So when the moon is closer, tides are pulled higher. Scientists call these perigean tides, because the moon's closest point to Earth is called perigee. The farthest point on the lunar orbit is called apogee.
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I knew it. This morning it looked f*ckin sweet on my drive in. it looked really close and high def 0_0

edit: btw WE LIKE THA MOON
 
I was wondering who left the back porch light on last night. Turned out it was the moon. Damn that was bright.
 
Originally posted by: meltdown75
I knew it. This morning it looked f*ckin sweet on my drive in. it looked really close and high def 0_0

edit: btw WE LIKE THA MOON
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1080p/24 moon FTW!!!! 🙂

Maybe the giant moon can pull our economy out of the giant hole it's in. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Xanis
Bah, I wish I had a longer lens so I could photograph it. 🙁
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i got some pretty good shots awhile back of the moon with a 75-300mm and nikon d50, handheld.

 
I took an observational astronomy class in college, we got to go up to the observatory and hook up a 35mm camera to the base of a 16 foot telescope pointed at the moon during the perigee. We then developed them by hand, the resulting 8x10 we each got to keep was SWEEET.
 
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