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05-05-12, 10:01 PM #1Everyday I’m Shufflin
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Supermoon
A full moon at perigee (closest to the Earth) is called a Supermoon. Such an occurrence happens tonight (5/5). The photo above captures tonight's Supermoon over the Temple of Poseidon southeast of Athens.
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05-05-12, 10:42 PM #2reverse osmosis
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Thanks. Nice pic. I had a clear sky and it came up on me as a surprise, so it was good to see your post.
Last edited by Aqueous Id; 05-05-12 at 11:06 PM.
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05-05-12, 11:08 PM #3Even Freud Can Do It
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I wonder why it looks so massive on the horizon, but not so much higher in the sky.
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05-05-12, 11:19 PM #4Secular Sanity
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion
Originally Posted by JDawg
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05-05-12, 11:21 PM #5F-in' *meow* baby!!!
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I got to see it live. It was wicked.
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05-06-12, 05:37 AM #6C'mon, get happy!
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ooh! Never knew that.
Spiffy
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05-06-12, 05:43 PM #7Valued Senior Member
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I was up at 5 AM this morning and the moon was in the west and looked very large but not really much different than any other new moons to me.
It looked like this where I live although this isn't a picture that I took but rather somewhere else and someone else which depicts what I saw.
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