The moon is full, and it’s at its closest position in its orbit to Earth. That’s a fairly rare combination (technically called a perigee-syzygy) and means you’ll get a treat if you have a clear night and can catch it on the rise. Stop blogging and look eastward, O Musers!
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Yes! It is beautiful! It rose about an hour ago here, and it was GIGANTIC and ORANGE. I had to howl at it.
I’m looking at it right now. It’s not all that much bigger, but its much brighter. I think I might have missed the biggest point.
Too cloudy here.
But at least they’re pretty clouds.
It is to rainy and cloudy were I live.
Cloudy.
I saw it. It didn’t look that big.
looks pretty normal
It was simply breathtaking. I never stop to appreciate things and this made me realize I need to do it more often.
Raining.
It’s breathtaking. I should stop and look at the sky more often.
I saw it along with AM.
We obsessed over how good the graphics were that night. I mean, they must have spent over half their budget!
EXACTLY.
I actually made a comment to my family how they blurred the edges of the moon very beautifully when they GIMP/Photoshopped it in on top of the clouds. The only response I got was ” 
“.
ToT I have no one to obsess over these things with. ToT
Welcome to my world!
What does ToT stand for?
It was too cloudy where I lived, unfortunately.
ToT is a crying face.
it’s a face! ToT
Oh. It’s hard to tell when you’ve set your computer to show almost all letters in Old English Text (or whatever it’s called; anyway, it’s that font that normal people can’t read because it hasn’t been used since medieval times for anything except the first letters of chapters in books; I love the way it looks, but it makes emoticons confusing).
It’s like that xkcd strip:
“This sabre is a 19th century family heirloom.”
“It looks Photoshopped.”
“What?”
“Yeah, the reflections are all wrong. Definitely Photoshopped.”
So, what, we’re living in the Matrix or something?
Now, LBK is here to dampen your mood.
According to one of my friends on another site, this could have apocalyptic results. Studies have shown that there is a slight increase in volcanic activity on full moons. In addition, since he moon controls the tides, tsunamis are certainly a possibility. And it also causes “land tides” so earthquakes are on the list as well. Start stocking saltines, people.
This is where this is coming from: http ://www.msnbc.msn. com/id/41997880 /ns/technology_and_science-space/ from/ toolbar
I’m not worried. Perigee-syzygy events aren’t that rare. If they significantly increased the number of earthquakes and/or tsunamis, scientists would have noticed it long ago. (Tides don’t cause tsunamis anyway.)
Besides, who thinks saltine crackers are an ideal disaster food? I’d rather stock up on Girl Scout cookies.
Poptarts, dude. Poptarts. No need to cook, edible to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians, fruits and starches and protein if you also have peanut butter ones…
Actually, PopTarts have gelatin in them, so lots of vegetarians don’t at them.
Plus, I don’t think those things ever go bad!
I’ve checked the MSNBC story. The doomsday prediction came from an astrologer. When the reporter asked geoscientists about it, they agreed that “Practically speaking, you’ll never see any effect of lunar perigee. It’s somewhere between ‘It has no effect’ and ‘It’s so small you don’t see any effect.'”
I saw it last night through several large telescopes at a local astronomy club.
You guys, it was so bright that one time, I held my palm three inches from the eyepiece and there was a bright spot THE SIZE OF A QUARTER PROJECTED ON MY HAND! It was crazy.
And we looked through this one really big telescope that made it look so close that I felt like I was in a spaceship approaching the moon.
And the last time it was that big…
I was less than a month old.
It was beautiful, but not especially big. i don’t know. Very bright though.
I saw it both last night and the night before. On the 19th, I saw it rise, and it was huge, orange, and beautiful. But the previous night, there were thin patches of clouds, which made it look even more amazing shining through.
It was cloudy last night.
Darn, I missed it. I saw the moon but apparently I saw it too late for it to look huge.
Well, it was also extra bright.
Erm… The moon looked totally normal to me. It might be that it was approaching its zeninth, but it was a few hours away anyway and it didn’t look any different than normal. Beautiful, just not extraordinary.
I saw it. It was pretty big, but not much different. Maybe it was too late, like Magnolia; it was around 9:45 PM when I saw it.
I meant to say “bright,” not “big”
I caught it as it was setting… Didn’t really see any appreciable difference. =shrugs= The moon has been disappointing me lately- first I don’t get to see the eclipse, now I do get to see this but it’s nothing special?
-A
Syzygy is an excellent word.
It’s the shortest word in the English language containing three Ys.
I saw it at about 8:30 EST. Frankly, by that point, it had gotten a little higher, so it wasn’t as orange or as big, but it was still cool. I have seen the moon get that big and that orange during the fall before/right after the time changed. It was really cool. You could almost see that cloud of bats flying across…
It wasn’t orange for me, but it was pretty brilliant, almost blinding in fact. I saw it really late at night coming out of a concert, and it was really dark, so it looked amazing. I don’t remember seeing the moon like this before, but a couple years ago there was something about mars being really big/bright…
That moon really messed me up, sleep-wise XD I like darkness with only *slight* moon light. Complete darkness is unacceptable too though.
I am very particular.
Just found this thread. Well, on March 19 night, my friend and I were sitting in the backseat of a car talking about who-knows-what when somebody reminds us that there’s that big moon. Andwe look and it seems slightly (although not very) bigger than usaual and much brighter than usaul, creating the effect that it was pulling back the sky or something. It was weird.