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Wikipedia: One of the best things under the moon
Good point on the 1.5 % difference of around 1 earth radius from rise till above. So on any given night it would be actually larger overhead by a tad. Wikipedia is such a great thing for all sorts of info. Thanks for link.
We might as well talk about the full moon cause nobody's going out to observe mag 15 galaxies for a week or more. That was a great picture one of the IceInSpace guys posted on the color moon a while back.
Also related to the moon I caught a spot on the web yesterday talking about if (when) Eta Carinae goes supernova it might be about the same mag as the moon but still small. Now that would be amazing (I will miss it from +36 dec). That is such an amazing little object to view live a few times. You guys get a lot of kool objects from down there.
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