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To: SunkenCiv
Here's a winter moon for you - Tuesday morning. My ritual is to photograph the full moon.

17 posted on 01/29/2005 12:04:28 PM PST by ValerieUSA
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To: ValerieUSA

"It will look full for all practical purposes although you may notice that it will appear a bit smaller than usual. You can watch it all night long as it crosses the sky with Castor and Pollux and Saturn. And if you get up with the chickens I suggest you go out at exactly 5:32 a.m. Eastern Time or your local equivalent because at that moment the Moon will officially be full and will also officially be the farthest and thus smallest full Moon of the entire year, over a quarter million miles away, 251,987 miles to be exact. And here's where the fun part comes in.

"Set up your camera using a zoom lens and take a picture of it. This is the first half of your experiment. The second half will occur six months later on July 21st just before sunrise when we will have the closest and biggest full Moon of the year, only 222,028 miles away, which will be 30,000 miles closer than next week's full Moon. Now remember to use the same zoom lens and setting in July that you use next week. Then take the two pictures, cut them in half either physically or on your computer and place both halves together and you will see a huge difference because July's full Moon will be 13% larger than next week's."

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18 posted on 01/29/2005 1:45:31 PM PST by SunkenCiv (In the long run, there is only the short run.)
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