Lunar perigee - 19th March 2011

[Backtrack]

The Moon is closest to Earth during the UK early evening and the moon will be rising from the east, so there are chances of seeing this. So it doesn't have to be completely clear all night, it will be more dramatic at moonrise rather than higher up anyway.

The odds of seeing that look slim now. It's almost completely overcast here!

[Mesosphere]

looks clear up to midnight here , so looking good for observing

For Edinburgh ,

Moonrise : 6.40pm

Highest in Southern Sky : 12.24am

Moonset : 5.39am

Might take some photos when it rises this evening with the camera , i'll post them up later on tonight

Edited March 19, 2011 by Calum

[blitzen]

I take it this is a hoax then?

[ZONE 51]

NASA science

Sunrise and MOON rise - and setting times

SUPER MOON! < (FROM THIS SITE) Quote"Any coastal storm at sea around this time will almost certainly aggravate coastal flooding problems"

[stewfox]

Beautiful red moon at present low in the sky, 90% clear at present

[Backtrack]

Yep had an orange moon here. Turning white and bright now

[Winter Warmer]

argh! trees in the way

[stewfox]

Yep had an orange moon here. Turning white and bright now

I told my partner its the closest in 18,000 yrs to get her to look

Some high level cloud so maybe not (30% brighter) as different as one could expect

[4wd]

A bit grainy but gives an idea.

It was at least 3 inches across as you can see...

[The PIT]

Clear skies here looks no different to be honest.

[Backtrack]

Completely overcast here. Gutted.

[Paul Sherman]

Stunning Orange Moon Here this evening in Crystal Clear Skies!

Lol no good at Moon Pictures but it gives you the general idea, think I will stick to Storm Pics :lol:

[The PIT]

Stunning Orange Moon Here this evening in Crystal Clear Skies!

Lol no good at Moon Pictures but it gives you the general idea, think I will stick to Storm Pics :lol:

Well at least you've got an orange moon. I could take a pic of a normal looking moon to make yours look better if you so wish. At least your pic is interesting.

[Crepuscular Ray]

Beautifully clear here in W. London (that's a first in about 3 years), but tbh, it doesn't look any bigger than normal.

[Backtrack]

Beautifully clear here in W. London (that's a first in about 3 years), but tbh, it doesn't look any bigger than normal.

It's 12% larger.

But it's not that much closer than normal in all honesty.

[Candice]

Bad Moon Rising in Norfolk tonight

[Coast]

Perfectly clear night, here's mine with a bit of cropping:

So, the World didn't end in fire and tempest then?

[snow raven]

Was that it? I was expecting something spectacular that might have been something unusual (like most nights)

Seriously though, I swear the moon has been larger (assuming that's what happens when it is closer to earth) than that last night?!!

[Gray-Wolf]

Was that it? I was expecting something spectacular that might have been something unusual (like most nights)

Seriously though, I swear the moon has been larger (assuming that's what happens when it is closer to earth) than that last night?!!

Does that mean you've not looked at the flush of new leads across the Arctic ice pack?

http://www.woksat.info/etctc20/tc20-1131-f-grn-n.html

[Coast]

Was that it? I was expecting something spectacular that might have been something unusual (like most nights)

I must admit I was expecting something bigger and seem to think we have had harvest moons that appeared larger in the sky. Oh well, only another 5 years to go until the next one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1367829/Supermoon-Did-tonights-lunar-perigee-cause-Japans-tsunami.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

[Gray-Wolf]

Seems California was hit by a big storm yesterday?

[Coast]

Yesterday afternoon five different vessels got into distress in the busy shipping lanes of the Solent, at the Needles on the western side of the Isle of Wight. Coastguards suggested that they were caught out by Saturday evening's "supermoon", which caused sandbanks to be exposed by low tides.

One of the ships was the 2,900-tonne cargo ship Paula-C, on its way to Cowes with a crew of nine. They were forced to wait for a high tide to lift them clear of a shingle bank. A 25-foot yacht ran aground and three other vessels were also marooned on sand and shingle banks that normally lie submerged. A spokesman for the Coastguard said: "We checked them all and there were no injuries, just some surprise at being caught out like this. Blame it on the moon."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8395123/Supermoon-blamed-for-stranding-five-ships-in-Solent.html

[AderynCoch]

What an overrated episode. When I saw the full moon on Saturday night it certainly seemed a bit bigger than usual, but I suspect my imagination may have been playing tricks with me: either way the difference was pretty negligible, and certainly not significant enough for media outlets to devote entire galleries to it. I noticed a lot of photos on the BBC News website were manipulated to make the moon look ridiculously and impossibly large (nice photos nonetheless though).

I strongly suspect that the saturated coverage of this particular lunar juncture was triggered by the the pseudoscientific scaremongering which preceded it.

[Methuselah]

Like most apocalyptic drivel concerning the moon - much ado about nothing! :lol: