Jon O'Rourke wrote:
"JPG" wrote in message
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A full 18 hours of moonshine tonight (well, 1500 today until 0900
tomorrow) with the moon at the highest position in the sky for 18
years. 5 degrees higher than midday midsummer sun because of the
moon's inclined orbit.

Martin

Interesting. I've got a theory that there's more reports of sky clear (now
coded as NSC - nil sig. cloud) in foggy situations when there's a good part
of the moon showing and the fog is relatively thin. I doubt the theory will
be tested tonight though.

Not forgetting the circumpolar effect are we?

This month for instance, it will be circumpolar over an whole 1/3 of a
degree more latitude than it was about this time last year for
instance. And since ALL full moons take about 30 hours to go from 99.5%
full to 99.5% full the effect must be VERY VERY average.

Compa
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2...larminimum.htm
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Solar

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