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Anyone noticed that the moon is brighter than normal tonight ?
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| 7/30/2015
| self American Constitutionalist
Posted on 07/30/2015 7:36:30 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
Has anyone noticed that the moon is brighter than normal tonight ? Saw a bright object flying in the sky brighter than airplane in eastern USA.
TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: apogee; moon; perigee; sky
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To: American Constitutionalist
We’ve got a really bright, full one near Buffalo, but not blue... I would love to see one! This July 4 th, we had a large, orange-red, low-hanging moon... I stopped on the way home from a friend’s, saw it, and took a picture. Stuff like that is so cool!
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:32:05 PM PDT
by
Grateful2God
(Those who smile like nothing's wrong are fighting a battle you know nothing about. -Thomas More)
To: American Constitutionalist
I don’t know...but I think there was one earlier this year.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:32:19 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: American Constitutionalist
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:33:49 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: cripplecreek
My Starry Night software gives it a magnitude ( tonight ) of -12.82, and the Wiki article on
Apparent magnitude gives the maximum brightness of the full moon as -12.92, with an average of -12.74, so it's on the bright side according to these sources.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:35:33 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: American Constitutionalist
A forest fire covering almost 1,000 acres just east of Glide, OR. I just hope it’s not the first of many. Beautiful country which is very dry with the hot weather and all the human caused fires we are getting here and in California.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:36:33 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Grateful2God
You’re seeing it! The “blue moon” means IIRC, the second full moon in the same month. Fairly rare.
I was reading the thread with the newspapers of WWII+70 years on FR, and they said bombing of Toyko was done under a bright moon. I had to check - it wasn’t a blue moon.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3318469/posts
Only a few more days and we will be reading about the A-bombs. After reading day after day of all the new towns being bombed, with an average of 50% of each city and town destroyed, the A-bombs will practically seem merciful to me and get them to end the war.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:37:49 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
To: American Constitutionalist
In all seriousness, though, if it’s just a night light, it probably has an earthly explanation.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:38:20 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: American Constitutionalist
The Moon is 3 days before perigee and it’s full, so this is close to as large and bright as it gets.
“Blue Moon” has nothing to do with it, in case you were wondering. The only reason it’s called “blue” is the timing, not the color, size or intensity.
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:47:25 PM PDT
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Nep Nep
To: American Constitutionalist
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07/30/2015 8:55:10 PM PDT
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Oratam
To: American Constitutionalist
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posted on
07/30/2015 8:56:53 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
To: Oratam
Not yet, waiting for God to send the right woman.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
On this night of lunatic lunar wonder, I happened to step outside for another look, just now, and saw a slow bright yellow meteor descending on the ENE horizon, here in the Chicagoland area and environs at 11:04 PM CDT.
Woohoo!
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:09:55 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: American Constitutionalist
You’re too close. Take a few steps back.
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:12:44 PM PDT
by
matt1234
(Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
To: Fiddlstix
Pitch black here in Northern Ohio.
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:35:53 PM PDT
by
Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
(Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
It’s almost as bright as day down here in South Texas.
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:46:05 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: dr_lew
And so now, at 11:55PM CDT, I stepped out once more and saw a plane on approach to O’hare fly right across the disk of the now famously full moon. What are the chances? I’m afraid to go out there another time!
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posted on
07/30/2015 9:58:39 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: American Constitutionalist
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posted on
07/30/2015 10:14:20 PM PDT
by
Bon mots
To: American Constitutionalist
Did the moon
hit your eye
like a’big, -uh pizza’ pie?
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:16:21 PM PDT
by
BlueDragon
("Another d-mn'd thick, square book! Always, scribble, scribble, scribble! Eh! Mr. Gibbon?")
To: dr_lew
Gotta be Martians. H. G. Wells was only about 1.5 centuries off.
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posted on
07/30/2015 11:47:29 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
To: American Constitutionalist
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07/31/2015 12:41:39 AM PDT
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ru4liberty
(Dissing Chris Kyle/"American Sniper" = spitting on Vietnam vets)
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