[Elizabeth]

i plan one heading to a spot i canwatch it rise. Should be interesting.
I remember a few when a child. Gigantic orange ball on the horizon in the East. Cool. Hoping it is a biggie.
 

[JLM]

Saw it early this morning in the west (Michigan) and yes it got big and orange as it sat.

Elizabeth, where are you located?

[smargo]

i plan one heading to a spot i canwatch it rise. Should be interesting.
I remember a few when a child. Gigantic orange ball on the horizon in the East. Cool. Hoping it is a biggie.
 

also saw it tonight - outside of philadelphia - it was spectacular

[Napalm]

[Elizabeth]

Where am I located:
In the middle of my living room.
Somewhere in the Western Hemisphere....
 

[Calypte]

Sorry to burst your lunar bubbles, but the size difference is unnoticeable to the human eye.  Compared to last month's and next month's full moons, the size difference is about 2%, which for an object around 30 arc seconds across cannot be resolved by the unaided eye.  This would be true even if those other full moons were available for comparison -- which they aren't.  A better comparison would be with a full moon at apogee, farthest from earth.  Well, last August's full moon (Aug 25, 2010) was close to apogee, and the size difference between that moon and this close one would indeed be noticeable (about 14%).  But do you remember what last August's full moon looked like?  Did you even bother to look at it?  Even if the "supermoon" phenomenon were perceptible, viewing it at, say, 7:00 PM or 8:00 PM (or your time zone's equivalent) would make no visible difference, even with a telescope.

[JLM]

Didn't mean to pry Elizabeth.

Calypte, you're not bursting my bubble, I know better.  But the "scientific romantic" in me thinks of what the moon would have looked like 3 billion years ago when it was 15 times closer to the Earth and what the tides would have been like.      

[Napalm]

Sarah can't sing during full moon:

http://www.johnlabattcentre.com/calendar/032011-19.html

Yes, I had tickets. It sucked.

Nap.

[werd]

Sarah can't sing during full moon:

http://www.johnlabattcentre.com/calendar/032011-19.html

Yes, I had tickets. It sucked.

Nap.

   Nap gets tickets to SM and then goes and doesn't like it...... 

thats a double fail.......

[Elizabeth]

The Moon always looks best when it is a hot evening. The warm air lens makes the Moon look HUGE as it rises. Cold air, not nearly as much Then a little volcanic ash adds to the color. giant red MoonRise anyone?
Last night lucky could see it all all. At least the clouds had a gap and the MoonRise was visible, then she immediately went into a layer of clouds.
As I mentioned, I can remember one particular full Moon in my childhood. That Moon was positively gigantic, deep red-orange color as it rose over the trees.
And then all the 'sun' shaped emoticons.. No Moon emoticons? biased! (though the blue ones could be considered Full Moon...)
Added: Calypte: no romance? The Moon is more than a rock! I usually do not go looking for her, but often when she is up in the sky i say hello Moon.... Just because humans have walked on the physical rock, does not negate the emotional connections we have with her mythology.

[mkaiser]

The Moon is more than a rock! I usually do not go looking for her, but often when she is up in the sky i say hello

Elizabeth, does she sometimes answer back? 

Mark

[Napalm]

  Nap gets tickets to SM and then goes and doesn't like it...... 

thats a double fail.......

You b00n which part of "the show was canceled" was too difficult to understand?

Nap. 

[Calypte]

The Moon always looks best when it is a hot evening.

The moon is the same size in warm air or cold air.  The air temp has no effect.  The larger moon near the horizon is a psychological effect.  I've seen different explanations, but the bottom line is that the effect is in our heads.  If you compare a photo of the moon when it's near the horizon (or the air temp is hot, cold, whatever) with a photo of the moon when it's overhead, shot with the same lens and camera, you can measure the image and see that the only size change is the small effect of the moon's elliptical orbit, and that difference is unnoticeable in an ordinary snapshot.

[werd]

You b00n which part of "the show was canceled" was too difficult to understand?

Nap. 

well that explained why you thought she sucked. How long into the show was it before you realized she wasn't there?.   

[Elizabeth]

The Moon can be more than a rock flying around a bigger lump of rock.
And no, the Moon does not physically answer me, but the happy presence of the Moon shining does have a psychological effect I will not deny. And an internal answer that can be very pleasant.
I hope that is criptic enough.
And which is the reality? What we perceive as a 'bigger' moon, and accept that pretty sight? Or, that we mentally tell ourselves it is a rock that really does not change sizes, and we can prove that.? I am sorry for your tiny mindset if you can't sense the beauty of what is happening, and can only see the cold facts.
Some folks are not disturbed with the dichotomy of a marvelous mythical Goddess floating by, and the rock we went to in the 1960's that just by co-incidence is exactly the apparent size of the Sun. Living a dry 'reality stricken' life is very dull.
Do you tell yourself when you look at a flower, what the exact nanometer wavelength it is absorbing and reflecting to be what we call a particular color? And that it is just trying to reproduce it's species with the display?
Why do you even bother to listen to music? Or like Star Trek's Data: the technical systematic arrangement is mathematically satisfying.

[jermmd]

Last nights moon was spectacular. When I awoke for work this morning, I thought the kids had left the lights on outside but it was just a very bright moon shining in my window. It was low, near the horizon and looked huge. It was no less spectacular even if the effect was psychological. Did you ever see the movie "Cast Away" where Tom Hanks is floating on a raft in the middle of the ocean and the moon is absolutely gigantic. This morning made me think of that scene. I almost woke the family up to look at the moon this morning. I'm glad to see this thread because it validates what I saw today .
Joe M.

[Calypte]

The Moon can be more than a rock flying around a bigger lump of rock.
And no, the Moon does not physically answer me, but the happy presence of the Moon shining does have a psychological effect I will not deny. And an internal answer that can be very pleasant.
I hope that is criptic enough.
And which is the reality? What we perceive as a 'bigger' moon, and accept that pretty sight? Or, that we mentally tell ourselves it is a rock that really does not change sizes, and we can prove that.? I am sorry for your tiny mindset if you can't sense the beauty of what is happening, and can only see the cold facts.
Some folks are not disturbed with the dichotomy of a marvelous mythical Goddess floating by, and the rock we went to in the 1960's that just by co-incidence is exactly the apparent size of the Sun. Living a dry 'reality stricken' life is very dull.
Do you tell yourself when you look at a flower, what the exact nanometer wavelength it is absorbing and reflecting to be what we call a particular color? And that it is just trying to reproduce it's species with the display?
Why do you even bother to listen to music? Or like Star Trek's Data: the technical systematic arrangement is mathematically satisfying.

One can enjoy the sight of the moon without inventing an alternate reality.  I know some people take the view that knowing the facts about something can destroy the ability to enjoy or appreciate it.  Not I.  The more I know about these things, the more I appreciate them.  That applies to music, too.  I've seen expressed elsewhere the idea that knowing the structure and note-by-note details of a symphony destroys the ability to enjoy it.  That's not my personal experience.  Furthermore, it appears to me that those who make music, those who have spent years learning to play it and who have studied it to the level of understanding harmonic progressions and the exact circumstances of its creation -- they have also not lost their ability to enjoy it and marvel at it.  Facts don't preclude enjoyment.  Not for me, anyway.

[Napalm]

well that explained why you thought she sucked. How long into the show was it before you realized she wasn't there?.

You n00b, let me explain it to you again, since you seem to be unable to follow a posted link.

The first cancellation announcement was made after about some 60% of people were already admitted and seated. They were still selling tickets at the box office while the announcement was being made. I found this to kinda suck.

Nap.

 

[werd]

You n00b, let me explain it to you again, since you seem to be unable to follow a posted link.

The first cancellation announcement was made after about some 60% of people were already admitted and seated. They were still selling tickets at the box office while the announcement was being made. I found this to kinda suck.

Nap.

I'm not going to read a link sending me to an SM concert and all its crybaby detail.... 

[Napalm]

I'm not going to read a link [...]

Good to know. 

Nap.