Roser, PERIGEE is the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is nearest to the earth. The opposite of APOGEE. ORIGIN: fromGreek perigeion ‘close around the earth,’ from peri- ‘around’ + gē ‘earth.’
Willy Leenders Hasselt in Flanders (Belgium) Visit my website about the sundials in the province of Limburg (Flanders) with a section 'worth knowing about sundials' (mostly in Dutch): http://www.wijzerweb.be Op 20-mrt-2011, om 14:17 heeft Roser Raluy het volgende geschreven: > 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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial >
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