Posted on 09/28/2004 5:34:19 PM PDT by missyme
You know your right..I have a bunch of spiders in my yard or hanging from there webs? more than usual..I am not a spider fan and these spiders are kinda orange spotted
Are you in Calif?
CAn you see the Moon tonight and tell is if it's Red?
They said more Spiders than ususal? I don't know what they mean by more...
You must remember, these are the same people who write about hundreds of people attending a Kerry rally on someone's 8 foot by 20 foot front porch. ;>)
It is all clouds on the eastern horizon, but I can see silvery light glowing behind them, where it should have already risen. If it was red then, it is now too high to still be. Last night, it was yellow-orange, so I would expect it to have been redder tonight.
you got a point there:0
"Are you in Calif?"
Nope! I'm behind enemy lines in the People's Republik of Maryland.
What time is a good time to see the redness? I can't see the moon at all right now
lol...Who knows Invasion of the Spiders......YUK!
Can you see the Moon right now?
LOL! Good thing that we don't have a TV in the bedroom ;o)
From western Virginia a normal, white and gray moon peeks through broken clouds. Red moons are usually seen when it is near the horizon and its light passes through dust, smog, etc. in our atmosphere.
We see it fine, just north of you missy.
SO then how do we know it's a Harvest Moon?
I'd walk un the back but there so many Spiders I am afraid I will walk into one YUK! I will go look out the front window again....
I see it! I was looking in the wrong direction before..A Big White Full Moon with kind of a red ring around it, is that what you see?
Check your FReep mail; you'll find a list of all of them, and an explaination of them
As someone posted earlier, it is the full moon following the first day of autumn.
An approximate rule is, each year it is the full moon occurring anywhere in the period between September 22 and October 21.
The rule is approximate because a year is 365.24 days long and that fractional day causes the first day of autumn to move around a little on the calendar in a four year cycle.
Nothing to do with appearance (except for that whole big, round, full business). it's everything to do with timing. this is the first full moon after the first day of Autumn, hence, the Harvest Moon.
Thanks! Great Info! I do see the Big Full Moon this evening,,Interesting info...
And it does feel like Autumn... The best time of year...
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