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Title: lunar eclipse tonight
Post by: haydn jones on September 27, 2015, 10:20:50 pm: super moon tonight
http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/lunar/2015-september-28
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Post by: SA Chris on September 27, 2015, 10:51:01 pm: Cloud :( :(
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Post by: Duma on September 28, 2015, 02:02:33 am: Clear so far down saaarf, just starting to be noticable
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Post by: Duma on September 28, 2015, 03:30:34 am: this is pretty damn cool
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Post by: Falling Down on September 28, 2015, 03:38:00 am: Yeah. Amazing. So glad I got up to watch. Extraordinary..
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Post by: Duma on September 28, 2015, 03:56:21 am: Not often I'm glad to be on nights...
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Post by: SA Chris on September 28, 2015, 10:09:46 am: Screw you all, would have loved to see it. Just have to content myself with seeing it rise from front window every clear night.
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Post by: ashtond6 on September 28, 2015, 12:19:10 pm: had a great view of it from the parking at Apparent North

Massive red sunset over castleton, with a huge red moon over burbage :) absolutely amazing
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Post by: Johnny Brown on September 28, 2015, 01:32:31 pm: Another beautiful moonrise, but I can't say it appeared any bigger than normal to my eyes. I suppose it's good to engage people, but it's a shame if we can only do that with superlatives.

Clouded over here for the eclipse unfortunately.
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Post by: lagerstarfish on September 28, 2015, 01:41:50 pm: the moonrise was good

the kids had a great time looking at moon features through binoculars - we had a discussion about which bit's they'd like to visit

the little lad twigged that if there are mountains, then there will be stuff to climb

made me think about the old Spotiva ad...
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Post by: SA Chris on September 28, 2015, 01:57:20 pm: Quote from: Johnny Brown on September 28, 2015, 01:32:31 pm
I can't say it appeared any bigger than normal to my eyes. I suppose it's good to engage people, but it's a shame if we can only do that with superlatives.

Agree. Appears less than 10% bigger to the eye.
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Post by: haydn jones on September 28, 2015, 08:18:25 pm: It was 14% bigger than the minimum size it can be.
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Post by: rodma on September 29, 2015, 07:30:52 am: Quote from: haydn jones on September 28, 2015, 08:18:25 pm
It was 14% bigger than the minimum size it can be.
In diameter or area?
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Post by: Johnny Brown on September 29, 2015, 08:06:38 am: And the minimum size is as unusual as this maximum.
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Post by: dave on September 29, 2015, 09:21:05 am: I think even if you took a fairly experience moonwatcher and stuck them into a time machine that popped them out at an unidentified date at a full moon and asked them to tell you if the moon was at apogee, perigee or somewhere between just by looking at the size of the moon they would have a hard time.

(http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Super-Moon-to-Super-Moon-Revised-580x435.jpg)
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Post by: haydn jones on September 29, 2015, 10:12:48 am: Forgot to say it was also 34% brighter. Not sure about the area or diameter.
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Post by: SA Chris on September 29, 2015, 11:54:02 am: I though by looking at it only 30% at most ;)