The Stunning Beauty of the Super Moon, Tonight
Submitted by bobswern on Mon, 11/14/2016 - 11:02pm
Here are a few of what I thought were the most stunning videos I’ve seen on YouTube, as of this evening…
CNN via New York Today (photos/videos from around the world):
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_xAbe6MA0E]
Australia:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D--aECf5bp0]
Photos from around the world, via a video compilation from Pakistani media:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGx4NvQuQmY]
Comments
Thanks, bobswern.
It's pretty amazing here near Denver, last night and tonight. Bright white like a light bulb.
Same in Ithaca NY last night
but the clouds have moved in tonight (as usual, we miss astronomical events often).
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
The Eye of Sauron
Coit Tower, SF
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Twas foggy in the east bay hills
a touch of the London of Sherlock Holmes about it.
Magnificent! Thank you!
Unfortunately, it's a bit stormy here in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Super Moon will not be visible. More unfortunately, it may have been a partial contributor to the Earthquake.
Thank you for the fantastic photos!
I will say nothing.
Thank you for containing yourself : )
Last night - Texas to Kansas drive
Last night we drove from our home in Houston, Texas, up to my parents house in north central Kansas. The sky was totally clear and the moon was spectacular -- to say the least! We were in my wife's old Ford, which has a moon roof, so we pulled the inside panel back and let it shine into the car. It was really odd to have shadows cast so starkly inside the vehicle; lit everything up almost like a cloudy day!
Far out, lucky you,
driving through a clear night with the super moonlight falling on you from above, through the moon roof!
It was
It was, as they say, quite groovy.
As a side note, I mentioned to my wife before we left on our trip, that I was going to pay attention to the attitudes of drivers on the road -- looking for short-tempered folks, etc. This, of course, due to the election results. I didn't know whether there would be anything to notice or not. Turns out, there was.
By halfway to Dallas, I had pinpointed certain drivers who were driving like complete idiots, seemingly pissed as hell. The rest of the way to Kansas confirmed it: nearly all the Mercedes drivers were driving like madmen, consumed with rage. While everyone was driving extremely fast -- well above the posted 75 mph limit -- the Mercedes drivers were driving at 90 mph and above. They would come up from behind, standing on their brakes (all of this at high speed, remember...), then park their damn $150,000 Mercedes right on my back bumper. Of course, I didn't have anywhere to go either, as I would be the last car in a bumper-to-bumper backup. You could see them in the rear-view mirror, raging like mad bulls. Would they have been in huge four-wheel-drive trucks with confederate flag decals, I would have been concerned that I'd be dodging hot lead. However, I considered they were non-armed Dollar-Dems -- harmless unless they run over you with their damn expensive car ... or perhaps contribute large sums to corrupt and unsuccessful presidential candidates.
Those Mercedes drivers
lack the right attitude, and “non-armed Dollar-Dems”, are not at all groovy, and sadly dangerous in elections. Fortunately for your sakes, their "mad bull" ways didn't endanger you so much on the road, that you couldn't enjoy the beauty of all that you were passing through.
needs editing, this comment, respectfully of course
reason being we've been mercedes owners and drivers for 40 years, always "previously owned", always wonderful machines;
also necessary: the right mechanic to keep us going in "old" cars
Yes, not all MB owners
I knew when I wrote that comment I was taking a chance by stereotyping Mercedes Benz owners. So let me say, not all MB owners are anything like what I encountered on the road Sunday. In fact, I've not noticed past behavior from MB drivers that has caught my attention in a way that would lead me to stereotyping. The drivers behaving badly I encountered on our drive were all (yes, all) driving obviously brand new models -- some so new I'd never before seen these models.
Further, I've made a living for over 35 years maintaining vehicles which cost many, many times more than the most exotic MB's I saw Sunday ... and those vehicles are owned by folks who wouldn't be traveling by car on any highway. I hesitate to stereotype even those folks. However, on Sunday, the shoe fit.
The Interstellar Light Collector
in Three Points, Arizona must have had an overflow crowd these last couple of days.
I missed visiting, when i lived in Tucson, but do plan to visit the next time i drive cross country.
Bathing in moonlight- magical.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-moonbeams-idUSN0463343020071205
I chuckled a bit . . . among other reactions . . .
Not to be a wet blanket.
Don't get me wrong, I do love the great pictures, and I am ecstatic that a lot of people are taking an interest in this, but you do know that your eyes are not seeing anything extraordinary. In fact if not for the media attention you probably would not even notice the difference. To see the difference you would have to remember how bright the moon was at full phase six months ago.
The real value of this "event" is that over 125 people (that probably would not have otherwise) showed up to visit with us on campus. Several young people had an opportunity to talk with real scientists because their parents decided to respond to the tweets and such. I love to watch little kids get excited as they finally see the moon inside the telescope. I spent the evening complimenting people on getting pictures through the telescope.
See!, this is why I don't get invited to parties, I am the very definition of "Buzz Kill".
For some reason,
I suspect you don’t mind being a “wet blanket”, while also encouraging the “real value” of the event.
Ultimately, the value lies in the inspiration.
I'm familiar with "Moon Illusion." But that's not pertinent.
Price Rip, I'm familiar with the refraction issues regarding "Moon Illusion." But, that's not the point. It's about the beauty of the visual (real or imagined), and how it is "translated" by the mind of the person looking at it. That's about 99% of "the point" of art, itself! Everyone has their own/personal response to it. (I'll bet you're not a big art fan, right? When was the last time you were in an art museum? As opposed to a historical/natural sciences/science museum.)
And, as far as being a "wet blanket" is concerned, I'm sure there are 50 people over at Orange State that have accused yours truly of being exactly that, but for entirely different reasons.
"Freedom is something that dies unless it's used." --Hunter S. Thompson
Precisely the point . . .
This is the beauty (and the curse) of the situation. My job is to guide those that think they saw something extraordinary to realize the true beauty that is before them. The tragedy is that far too many are primed to think: What they think they saw is in fact what they saw and any scientific explanation diminishes the experience. So in a crowd of people milling about I bite my tongue, in the less chaotic environment of the classroom (and I hope here) I do not need to be so very careful.
I have no idea of the extent of your expertise (if any) but if one of the non-cognoscenti babbles a malaprop your internal state reacts, even if you are able to keep a straight face. That happened to me several times last night.
I chuckled!
I aim to please. Oh! and misbehave ‽ Mustn't leave that out.
I don't find the science behind it to be a detriment to
the beauty of it. We are catching it at peak, probably never looked yesterday, and probably won't look tomorrow.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Fair enough.
Most tend to associate this phenomenon with evening. During the next few days, morning viewing will be nice (local weather conditions permitting).
The contrast between the beauty of the earth and the heavens
and the ugliness of power is overwhelming. I'm beginning to feel a lot like mimi.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I stepped outside my door,
stood in my front yard.
I saw the source of the brightness that alit my home as though a street light had been installed.
I saw the large moon, and it had an aura of blue/purple/white.
My blue tick hound was on my left, my Basset hound on my right. My 2 geldings came from the field to stick their noses over the yard fence.
We all looked up. We heard a donkey from a pasture across the road braying with particular musicality. Then, coyotes sang, yipped, from the woods to the right, from the woods to the left.
Beautiful moon, peaceful, singing critters, and I won't be the curmudgeon who hangs a sheet over my bedroom window to keep out the light of the moon that made it possible for me to wander around without a flashlight.
I do not know the science of it.
I do know the beauty and wonder of it, and I am ignorantly happy that on this evening, I had a life experience that I hope to take with me forever.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
How beautifully poetic and descriptive your words are.
Thank you.
Thanks, janis
There are no perfect places to be, and I would be the first to tell you the many ways Texas sucks.
But I am not in Houston with smog and sirens every 5 minutes. I am not on the border, with gunshots and nasty odors.
I am in the woods. I have a ranch across the road in front of me, a ranch across the road to the left of me. My own 12 acres was once part of a giant ranch.
The cattle lo. Raccoons pilfer my feed in my barn.
Birds chirp.
Even at my law office "in town", squirrels play, fuss, steal the pecans from the three prolific trees in my yard. I take what is left.
Oh, and I treasure it. Pecans, and everything else the woods offer.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981