Hey everyone,I thought this was cool,it's that names of all the moons this year of 2007.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20061229/ … mesfor2007
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Full Moon tonight!And I can see it!
*Goes outside to run and howl*
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Cool, so May is going to have a blue moon.
The January moon is one of my favorites because it is so high. Tonight is perfectly clear where I am so I'm pretty happy right now. The only thing that is missing is snow on the ground Nothing is as beautiful as a winter moon lighting up a snow-covered landscape.
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I wish we had a Blue moon here....I did see the Harvest moon once! It was super yellow and really really big!
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Grigio wrote:
Cool, so May is going to have a blue moon.
The January moon is one of my favorites because it is so high. Tonight is perfectly clear where I am so I'm pretty happy right now. The only thing that is missing is snow on the ground Nothing is as beautiful as a winter moon lighting up a snow-covered landscape.
I know what ya mean!I usually have a foot of snow and now all I have is mud!
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yeah, i've been having trouble seeing the full moon this time
it's been cloudy and i been busy. i'm bummed.
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I seen a red moon once around midnight. It was really something to see!
The reason it was so red was because of the earths shadow passing over the full moon, I think. I guess that might be called a lunar eclipes if I'm right.
That was nice.
Siverwolf.
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Strangely enough, I belive that I've seen a couple of red moons in my time. Heheh, my time yeah my sixteen years.
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Grigio wrote:
Cool, so May is going to have a blue moon.
The January moon is one of my favorites because it is so high. Tonight is perfectly clear where I am so I'm pretty happy right now. The only thing that is missing is snow on the ground Nothing is as beautiful as a winter moon lighting up a snow-covered landscape.
The blue moon will be on June 30th, 2007.
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What exactly causes the moon to be blue, red, or yellow?
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BlackWolfDS wrote:
What exactly causes the moon to be blue, red, or yellow?
A red, orange or yellow looking moon is because of dustlike particles in the atmosphere. When the moon is on the horizon it looks more red, orange or yellow than when it is higher up because you are viewing it through more dust particles.
Here's a link on it too:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index … 446AAoKhLh
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A blue moon is the rarer second full moon in a one month period. A yellow or gold moon is usually what you see as the moon rises through the thicker (and usually polluted) atmosphere near the horizon. Our atmosphere tends to scatter and deflect blue light and let the longer wavelengths of red light pass through, so that's what we end up seeing. It's the same reason you see a reddish moon during a lunar eclipse.
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ah THANKS!
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I found out a couple of cool moon facts on the internet. I noticed BlackWolf mentioned that various full moons look bigger or smaller. I found a website that said that a lot of the variation could be explained by how far the moon is away from the earth. Here is a side-by-side picture of a close moon and a far moon on the site:
The difference really surprised me, since I hadn't really ever noticed it. I saw on another site that the full moon will keep getting farter away from the earth until May, so we are in a shrinking moon cycle now
Another thing that is cool is that we always hear about the midnight sun way up north or way down south. But apparently in the winter-time in the polar regions there is a noon-time full moon also. So the full moon doesn't set around the poles in winter!
I made this image from an astronomy program I have. It shows what you would see at noon today if you were on the island of Svalbard looking north:
That would be a cool idea for a werewolf movie. Up north the werewolves stay shifted for three days straight because the moon doesn't set
Of course, the down-side is that in the summer around the poles the full moon doesn't rise at all
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Awesome and interesting info dude!!
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Full Moon zoomed in
Full Moon without zoom
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Cool moon piccies BlackWolf and Howl!
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i want the moon to take me away right now....to that great wilderness in the great beynd where i can be in my true form and run with my pack.... be with my true soul mate...
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Cool pictures.
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I love living in the woods,I feel so at home all the time.
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Grigio wrote:
That would be a cool idea for a werewolf movie. Up north the werewolves stay shifted for three days straight because the moon doesn't set
that reminds me of the comic (and movie in the near future) 30 Days of Night. it's bout vampires living (sort of, knamean?) in Alaska where it's nighttime for a long time (like 30 days, knamean?) and yeah, it's an awesome graphic novel. man, i loves me my comix.
anyways, aroooo! i saw the moon tonight! not the fullest moon, but still, it's pretty full! awoooooo!
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I took this with my camera phone(crappy, lol) earlier tonight.
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*Drools over all the pictures* I love the moon. It doesn't matter how full it is, as long as it's there I'm happy.
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Cool piccie!
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