Supermoon!

[bookitty]

We sat on the balcony, split a bottle of decent vin red and discussed this, that and other deep philosophical things. At one point, we noticed that the courtyard below was brighter than usual, looked up at the moon in silence for a good 10 seconds and then finished off the bottle.

It was super.

 

[autumn1971]

We sat on the balcony, split a bottle of decent vin red and discussed this, that and other deep philosophical things. At one point, we noticed that the courtyard below was brighter than usual, looked up at the moon in silence for a good 10 seconds and then finished off the bottle.

It was super.

Well, generally the "super" bits often come after some moon-gazing and a bottle of wine.
Nothing unusual there.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Meh. Didn't look that different to me.

Looked exactly the same as every other full moon.

 

[PhantomWolf]

I happened to be outside just after moonrise and so had a look, held up my hand at arm's length and discovered that it was still smaller than the tip of my small finger, went "Meh" and ignore it after that except to yell abuse at the moron weather caster who kept claiming that since it was clear it was a great night for star gazing. Yeah Right, the brightest full moon of the year and he thinks you'll see good stars. pfft.

 

[crimresearch]

I see they've cleaned up the 'H A' mess.

 

[Brown]

As for recognizable body parts, about the only well-defined thing I see is the big ol' anus there on the bottom right side of the picture. Yet nobody ever refers to the "butthole in the moon".

Stanley Kubrick did. In "2001," the aliens left their "probe" there.

Edited to add: The monolith buried in the crater Tycho was designated TMA-1, which supposedly stood for "Tycho Magnetic Anomaly-One." Curiously, the magnetic permeability constant (mu-naught) has units of Tesla-meters-per-Ampere, and if "per Ampere" is denoted as Amperes to the negative first power, the units are TmA^-1.

 

[Dessi]

Its a conspiracy!

After checking out the supermoon, went to bed, woke up and all the neighborhoods trees were torn up and shredded. I think we had a hurricane come through. Tons of uprooted trees, roof damage, neighborhood streets was covered in fallen branches.

My sister and I are joking that it had something to do with the moon.

This is a house down the street from my sister:

 

[sarge]

As for recognizable body parts, about the only well-defined thing I see is the big ol' anus there on the bottom right side of the picture. Yet nobody ever refers to the "butthole in the moon".

My fiancee does, kinda.

I am an amateur observer (my avator is my backyard observatory). On a recent rare occasion that I was able to convince her to come outside and observe with me, she commented that the larger crater near the visable south rim (crater Tycho, probably) looked like a "water melon butt". I had to first ask what the heck a water melon butt is, then agree that it does resemble a watermelon butt.

For folks with telescopes, a SuperMoon is anything but. It washes out the rest of the sky, other interesting objects difficult to see, and is too bright and lacks contrast to make even the full moon itself an interesting target.

 

[varwoche]

We enjoyed exploring the shoreline during the super low tide. Lots of pretty sea creatures eagerly awaiting the return of high tide.

 

[Damien Evans]

My fiancee does, kinda.

I am an amateur observer (my avator is my backyard observatory). On a recent rare occasion that I was able to convince her to come outside and observe with me, she commented that the larger crater near the visable south rim (crater Tycho, probably) looked like a "water melon butt". I had to first ask what the heck a water melon butt is, then agree that it does resemble a watermelon butt.

For folks with telescopes, a SuperMoon is anything but. It washes out the rest of the sky, other interesting objects difficult to see, and is too bright and lacks contrast to make even the full moon itself an interesting target.

Yep. It's rather annoying, or would be if we hadn't had 20 nights straight of cloud and wind that were much more annoying. Pretty with the naked eye though, or it would have been if we hadn't had...

 

[sarge]

Yep. It's rather annoying, or would be if we hadn't had 20 nights straight of cloud and wind that were much more annoying. Pretty with the naked eye though, or it would have been if we hadn't had...

I recently discovered that fishing (we have several small lakes adjacent to my house) isn't nearly so boring as it used to be, and it seems to be perfectly acceptable to drink beer while fishing. So, observing being all but out of the question, I made use of the very bright moon to fish and drink beer until well after dark last night.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Its a conspiracy!

After checking out the supermoon, went to bed, woke up and all the neighborhoods trees were torn up and shredded. I think we had a hurricane come through. Tons of uprooted trees, roof damage, neighborhood streets was covered in fallen branches.

My sister and I are joking that it had something to do with the moon.

This is a house down the street from my sister:

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6769/20120506165629.jpg

I was in Omaha Saturday night. The thunder was rather loud downtown.

 

[Damien Evans]

I recently discovered that fishing (we have several small lakes adjacent to my house) isn't nearly so boring as it used to be, and it seems to be perfectly acceptable to drink beer while fishing. So, observing being all but out of the question, I made use of the very bright moon to fish and drink beer until well after dark last night.

Do you reckon my neighbours would mind if I bulldozed their houses and made a trout lake there? Because frankly 5km to the nearest public stocked lake is too far if I'm drinking.

 

[sarge]

Do you reckon my neighbours would mind if I bulldozed their houses and made a trout lake there?

Surely your neighbors are civic minded and understand the greater relative value of a well stocked trout pond over a couple of ordinary houses?


Back on topic:

I am traveling this week (sitting in a terminal right now). Last night I wheeled my big Dob out for a quick glance at the moon - it was just far enough past full to provide a few minutes of enjoyable crater hopping between bouts of clouds.