Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/20
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Hey, all you Moonies...This may already have been reported...but...It turns
out that this whole moon thing is simply the latest example of the power of
the internet to spread absolutely horseshit. Apparently all this started
with an Email some weeks ago, which got passed around and around and around,
with exageration upon exageration being added til the story was that this
brightest of all moons will be so bright cars won't need their headlights.
The Wall Street Journal has even run a story on the nonsense, and Sky and
Telescope has put something out on it/...Yes, the moon will be full. Yes, it
will be bright. And, by the way, it is often full and bright.....Ah,
computers.....
B. D.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Brian Reid
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 7:34 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Bay Area Lug/Leg impromptu yosemite trip?
>
>
> The US Naval Obseratory says that the moon will be full in Palo Alto,
> California (where I live) on 22 December 1999 at 9:32 a.m. PST.
> However, it also says:
>
> Moonrise 4:22 p.m. on preceding day
> Moon transit 11:42 p.m. on preceding day
> Moonset 7:06 a.m.
> Moonrise 5:20 p.m.
>
> This means that when the moon sets at 7:06 a.m. it will be 2 1/2 hours
> shy of full, and when it rises that afternoon at 5:20 pm it will have
> been full (and thus started waning) for 8 hours.
>
> The closest to a full moon that I'll be able to see here in California
> will be early in the morning of 21/22 December, though it will look
> awfully full the night of 22/23 December.
> If you want to get this data for your city, look here:
>
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/AA/data/docs/RS_OneDay.html