Yes I did see *The Glorious Full Moon* as I was returning from work, just driving over the bridge something made me turn my head round and there it was, big and bright golden yellow. Later on the TV news in the Catalan television (TV3) there was the Weather report. For Catalans the weather report takes about 10 minutes explanation every time with lots of information as well as photographs of people that send the Highlights" of the day. Evening news are about 21,30h and they received more than 60 good photographs of *that* full moon, they show a few and the rest can be viewed in Internet. The "weather man" also said that specific day the moon was at the closest possible distance of the earth and that's why we saw it so big. One more thing, what does it mean* Perigee*, I search in the dictionary and couldn't find it. Happy equinox to every body, Roser
2011/3/20 Roger Bailey <[email protected]> > Did you see the perigee equinox full moon rise this evening? We walked > down to the nearby east facing shore to see it rise. The horizon was > remarkably clear and the rising moon was beautiful over the water, a large > burnished golden orb rising just after 8 pm. At the lunar perigee the moon > is closest to us so the moon looks bigger, a full 31'51" in diameter. Today > was just before the equinox, 20 March 23:21 UTC. The sun set due west and > rises due east. As this this full moon is just before the equinox, we have > to wait a month for Easter. > > The sun is not everything. We enjoyed the reflected glories of a perigee > equinox moonrise. > > Regards, Roger > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial > > >
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