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Is it a Blue Moon?

Denny

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Just a touch eh. It was so cold in the shop this morning.It must have been nice here on May 1st last year as I've got some AI'ed cows locked in the barn right now.
 
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Anonymous

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Somewhere I heard this is the biggest moon of the year.... :???:

Big Muddy- I hope we don't get much/any of that predicted ice fog tonight...I was talking to my neighbor lineman- who has spent the last week up on the border working on the power outages- and he said there are still lines up there the size of baseballs from the frost they have on them.. :shock:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Oldtimer said:
Somewhere I heard this is the biggest moon of the year.... :???:

Big Muddy- I hope we don't get much/any of that predicted ice fog tonight...I was talking to my neighbor lineman- who has spent the last week up on the border working on the power outages- and he said there are still lines up there the size of baseballs from the frost they have on them.. :shock:

I saw some barbed wire up on a high hill that was circled with frost that big. :shock:
 
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Anonymous

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Boring night- Grandma has her quilting bee BS-- so been just having a toddy and chatting on facebook with a couple of future brides I have to perform upcoming wedding ceremonies for (WOMEN- getting married in June- but already bridezillas in January :wink: :lol: :p )...But decided to google up what I'd heard of this being the biggest moon of the year....

And upon looking- the moon is definitely bright- and Mars really shows up just to the left..
Dad used to call this a "poaching moon"- time to refill the hanger with venison from all the deer eating off the haystack...

Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010 Tonight
Fri Jan 29, 7:45 am ET
Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.


This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.


But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works:


The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.


So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.


Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.


As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100129/sc_space/biggestandbrightestfullmoonof2010tonight
 
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Anonymous

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jigs said:
poaching and stalking.... couple new hobbies there OT ?

Nope didn't even get a deer this year...After eating it the first 20 years of my life I don't care for it much anymore....
But that moon- and the position of Mars got the grandkids interested- and allowed me to give them a mini astronomy lesson....
 
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