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

I'll be out topping up me moontan!!

"Longest and strongest moonshine for 18 years"

I'm sticking with the Cabernet myself - that moonshine stuff will make you
blind if though it is the best for eighteen years.

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:39:01 -0000, "Trevor"
wrote:

I'll be out topping up me moontan!!


You may laugh but the PM presenter asked the "expert" from the Royal
Observatory whether it was safe to look at the moon !

Martin

"JPG" wrote in message
...
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.

Jon.

Jon O'Rourke wrote:
"JPG" wrote in message
...
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

(Nice little notepad in the Opera browser if anyone is making notes.)

JPG wrote:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:39:01 -0000, "Trevor"
wrote:

I'll be out topping up me moontan!!


You may laugh but the PM presenter asked the "expert" from the Royal
Observatory whether it was safe to look at the moon !

Martin

Not while driving!

--
Stuart Brooks
Carluke
South Lanarkshire 221m amsl

webcams at
www.brooks22.plus.com/index.htm

Webcam: http://www.brooks22.plus.com

Jon O'Rourke wrote:
"JPG" wrote in message
...
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.

Jon.

Great overnight pics from the Met Office night visibility cams at Aviemore
and Eskdalemuir - almost like daytime shots complete with pale blue sky and
full colour scenery

--
Stuart Brooks
Carluke
South Lanarkshire 221m amsl

webcams at
www.brooks22.plus.com/index.htm

Webcam: http://www.brooks22.plus.com

In article ,
JPG writes:
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:39:01 -0000, "Trevor"
wrote:

I'll be out topping up me moontan!!


You may laugh but the PM presenter asked the "expert" from the Royal
Observatory whether it was safe to look at the moon !

Did he (or she) reply: "Not if you're a werewolf"?
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

JPG wrote:
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

The last webcam capture of the day is showing the full moon *very* high
in the sky. There's going to be at least 18 hours of moonlight with it
in that position here.

les

--
Les Crossan,
Wallsend, Tyne & Wear
54.95N 1.5W
Home of the Wallsend StormCam and the Backup USW FAQ -
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