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That Big Ol’ Moon

The "super-moon" stuff from last weekend–a full moon at the moon's closest approach of the year (or for some number of years, I think)–was a little overdone, with many pictures of the moon looking truly enormous. But if you actually looked at the actual moon, you saw it looking pretty much like it always does when it's full. That doesn't mean it wasn't beautiful, though. My wife took this with her iPhone, from the parking lot of Ed's Seafood on the Mobile Bay Causeway. Pretty nice for a phone camera.

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Well, okay, the super-moon stuff was a lot overdone. Those pictures that show it looking so big were probably taken when it was rising or setting, then cropped so the moon fills up more of the frame. As everyone who's ever watched it knows, the moon (and sun) look bigger near the horizon (and also reddish-orange instead of white).

Maclin Horton

7 responses to “That Big Ol’ Moon”

  1. janet

    This is a wonderful picture. You should write a book of poetry and put it on the front.
    AMDG

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  2. Mac

    I will certainly tell the photographer that you said that.

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  3. Janet

    How tall is that grass? It looks like she was lying down, but of course I know she wasn’t.
    AMDG

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  4. Mac

    Tall. There could be a person standing in there and you wouldn’t see him. I guess she was…hmm…10 or 12 feet away from the grass, and the picture shows the top 3 feet or so of it. The top of my car was barely visible at the bottom of the picture before I cropped it out. The reason the grass is so visible and green, by the way, is the lights in the parking lot.

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  5. Janet

    What we need is a compilation of everything that everyone has ever written about the moon on the blog with that for the cover and the title That Big Ol’ Moon.
    AMDG

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  6. Robert Gotcher

    In my experience, the main difference one notices in a super moon is brightness, rather than size.

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  7. Mac

    I can’t even say that with any confidence. I didn’t really notice it being brighter this time, but it was sort of a misty night. I’d have to see two of them side by side under the same atmospheric conditions.

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