Don't miss this | Supermoon plus eclipse equals rare sky showSunday night

On 9/26/15 6:54 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
Supermoon plus eclipse equals rare sky show Sunday night
http://phys.org/news/2015-09-supermo...are-sky_1.html


Get ready for a rare double feature, starring our very own moon.

A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon
Sunday night or early Monday, depending where you are. That
combination hasn't been seen since 1982 and won't happen again until
2033.

When a full or new moon makes its closest approach to Earth, that's a
supermoon. Although still about 220,000 miles away, this full moon
will look bigger and brighter than usual. In fact, it will be the
closest full moon of the year, about 30,000 miles closer than the
average distance. (The moon's orbit is far from a perfect circle.)

NASA planetary scientist Noah Petro is hoping the celestial event
will ignite more interest in the moon. He is deputy project for the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, which has been studying the
moon from lunar orbit since 2009.

"The moon's a dynamic place," Petro said Wednesday. "We're seeing
changes on the surface of the moon from LRO. We're seeing that it's
not this static dead body in the sky ... it's this great astronomical
object that we have in our backyard, essentially. So people should
get out and start looking at it."



The moon has ris in my neck of the woods. This rare eclipse starts
in less than ten minutes. And clear skies!


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On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 5:03:18 PM UTC-7, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 9/26/15 6:54 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
Supermoon plus eclipse equals rare sky show Sunday night
http://phys.org/news/2015-09-supermo...are-sky_1.html


Get ready for a rare double feature, starring our very own moon.

A total lunar eclipse will share the stage with a so-called supermoon
Sunday night or early Monday, depending where you are. That
combination hasn't been seen since 1982 and won't happen again until
2033.

When a full or new moon makes its closest approach to Earth, that's a
supermoon. Although still about 220,000 miles away, this full moon
will look bigger and brighter than usual. In fact, it will be the
closest full moon of the year, about 30,000 miles closer than the
average distance. (The moon's orbit is far from a perfect circle.)

NASA planetary scientist Noah Petro is hoping the celestial event
will ignite more interest in the moon. He is deputy project for the
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, which has been studying the
moon from lunar orbit since 2009.

"The moon's a dynamic place," Petro said Wednesday. "We're seeing
changes on the surface of the moon from LRO. We're seeing that it's
not this static dead body in the sky ... it's this great astronomical
object that we have in our backyard, essentially. So people should
get out and start looking at it."



The moon has ris in my neck of the woods. This rare eclipse starts
in less than ten minutes. And clear skies!


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to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
community, and physics-related social issues.

Moon rise is 6 minutes away here on the west coast of the USA, and it is a beautiful clear evening... can't wait!

On Monday, September 28, 2015 at 1:03:18 AM UTC+1, Sam Wormley wrote:

The moon has ris in my neck of the woods. This rare eclipse starts
in less than ten minutes. And clear skies!




You know, it wouldn't kill an organization to put a camera on the moon looking back at the Earth and especially as the moon passes the fully illuminated face of the Earth with each monthly orbit.

The camera would track the North and South polar latitudes at 23 1/2 degrees above the fully illuminate face of the Earth as the move across that face and parallel to the orbital plane.

It is impossible to discuss planetary climate in any meaningful way without the components which make up planetary climate to begin with yet sometimes it takes a spark to awaken a society to what is actually happening and lunar eclipses serve that purpose.

I saw the orbital motion of the moon as it passed behind the Earth while others only saw past their local horizon and 'moonrise'.

You can see full Earths from the Moon he

http://youtu.be/yvhqK7NVVrU


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http://fettss.arc.nasa.gov/collectio...-globe-europe/

The North and South poles turn parallel to the orbital plane as the Earth moves through space and a camera on the near side of the moon will register this surface rotation with each monthly sweep around the Earth.

Instead of the usual moonrise and a graphic of a imaginary pole running from North to South pole to describe the Solstices and Equinoxes, our gorgeous planet deserves time lapse of the wonderful surface rotations to the central Sun. Of course a person needs that sense of beauty to apply to this planet what has already been observed of Uranus with each sweep of the Earth passed that distant planet -

https://astro.uni-bonn.de/~dfischer/...eck_2001-5.jpg

The moon would act in roughly the same role for the Earth as the surface of the Earth does for Uranus, it just needs people to awake in the 21st century and realize the possibilities in front of them.

http://fettss.arc.nasa.gov/collectio...-globe-europe/

The North and South poles turn parallel to the orbital plane as the Earth moves through space and a camera on the near side of the moon will register this surface rotation with each monthly sweep around the Earth.

As you can seein the second half of his video.

http://youtu.be/yvhqK7NVVrU

However exuberant it may appear to those who haven't tried it, practicing astronomy in the 21st century is much like learning how to dance . Nobody has to be particularly proficient at it as long as they are enjoying themselves and put in the effort to get out there and get into the flow which binds the individual to the Universal.

For so long the academics have shoved astronomy into physics classrooms where it is lost to voodoo and many reputations and lifestyles are built on creating a fear atmosphere using a blackboard full of equations that are meaningless. Far removed from an orchestrated attempt to blind humanity with novelties, the great insights of astronomy are there for all to see and work with in a clear and easily understandable manner.

Unlike the moderated forums which grant vapid titles to its participants and award them worthless points, sci.astro.amateur for all its faults is an open stage which is suited to making astronomy a vibrant and wholly enjoyable pursuit.

" All whose nature is to dance doth dance. Amen! .Who danceth not, knows not what is being done." Christian saying