"Col" wrote in message
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"Simonb" wrote in message
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Jim wrote:

It's the most southerly rising it will do. It also won't rise very
high in the sky. Apart from that it's still a ******* full moon and I
hate it. Why can't it be full during cloudy weather?

There really is no pleasing some people. What on earth can you find wrong
with a full moon?

Astronomers hate them

A full moon, in all it's icy glory is always spectacular in mid-winter.
Which has got me thinking, if we can have this effect in midsummer
when the moon is a few degrees lower than you might expect,
wouldn't you ocaisionally get the converse effect at a full moon at the
winter solstice when the moon would be a few degrees *higher* than
otherwise expected. Certainly higher than the sun could ever get for
your own particular latitude at the summer solstice.
Although of course it would be a lot less noticeable......

Col
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160m asl.
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Precisely - think the full moon near the winter solstice this coming
December/January will peak at something like 67/68° above the horizon in the
South of England.

Jim, Bournemouth.