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solstice/super full moon
The next full moon is close to the summer solstice.
The full moon will be June 23 at 9:02 a.m. NDT and the solstice will be June 21 at 2:34 a.m. NDT. Perhaps I will celebrate both on the night of June 22, which is a Saturday. Or an option is to celebrate for three days straight. (I am neopagan, though not Wiccan.) June 23 (or moonset the night of June 22) will be a super full moon. A friend shared this photo with me: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...=a.13634513652 0324.30543.136336876521150&type=1&theater The photo has text which says that: "This year's largest and closest `Super Moon' will occur on June 23, 2013. This super full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year, it also presents the moon's closest encounter with Earth in a long time." Again that full moon is at 9:02 a.m. NDT June 23, or 4:32 a.m. PDT June 23 in Vancouver. So the closest visible moon to the exact time of full moon here in St. John's will be at moonset at the end of the night of June 22, assuming it isn't cloudy then. I will probably view it on my way home from some friends' place (where I often am from midnight to 4 a.m. or so on Saturday night/Sunday morning). -- David Dalton http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan) |
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solstice/super full moon
NDT=UT-2.5 hr
-- David Dalton http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan) |
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solstice/super full moon
"David Dalton" wrote on 12th June:
The next full moon is close to the summer solstice. The full moon will be June 23 at 9:02 a.m. NDT and the solstice will be June 21 at 2:34 a.m. NDT. Perhaps I will celebrate both on the night of June 22, which is a Saturday. Or an option is to celebrate for three days straight. (I am neopagan, though not Wiccan.) June 23 (or moonset the night of June 22) will be a super full moon. A friend shared this photo with me: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...=a.13634513652 0324.30543.136336876521150&type=1&theater The photo has text which says that: "This year's largest and closest `Super Moon' will occur on June 23, 2013. This super full moon is not only the closest and largest full moon of the year, it also presents the moon's closest encounter with Earth in a long time." Again that full moon is at 9:02 a.m. NDT June 23, or 4:32 a.m. PDT June 23 in Vancouver. So the closest visible moon to the exact time of full moon here in St. John's will be at moonset at the end of the night of June 22, assuming it isn't cloudy then. I will probably view it on my way home from some friends' place (where I often am from midnight to 4 a.m. or so on Saturday night/Sunday morning). -- David Dalton http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/nf.html Newfoundland&Labrador Travel & Music http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) "Here I go again...back into the flame" (Sarah McLachlan) "Super Moon" meaning full moon coinciding with perigee (Moon's monthly closest approach to Earth), right? I'll try and look out for that (if it's not cloudy, which is a fair-sized "if" around here). Just found a perigee and apogee calculator on the Web: http://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html It seems your friend was right - according to that site, it's the Moon's closest approach to Earth since February 2010, and within an hour of full moon. I haven't a clue what that means astrologically, but I like it :-) Thanks for passing that on. -- A. B. My e-mail address is zen177395 at zendotcodotuk, though I don't check that account very often. Post unto others as you would have them post unto you. |
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