View Single Post
  #10  
Old 19-03-2011, 11:42 PM
ballaratdragons's Avatar
ballaratdragons (Ken)
The 'DRAGON MAN'

ballaratdragons is offline
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: In the Dark at Snake Valley, Victoria
Posts: 14,412
Quote:
Originally Posted by pgc hunter View Post
Well this full moon is just like any other.... except it's 0.0001% larger and 0.0001% brighter making deepsky observation that 0.0001% more difficult..I'm sure the media are all crowing to less informed folk on how this is the biggest moon in decades.....what they fail to say is the few arcseconds difference from a typical full moon and as such the inability of the eye to detect one iota of difference
But it DOES look bigger Sab!
Just ask my missus and Mum-in-law.
They said so, and they saw the Moon a few years ago and they say this one is bigger.
Reply With Quote