Ring Around the Moon

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Ring Around the Moon; a really cool sight!
Topic Started: Sep 4 2009, 02:20 AM (123 Views)
panzer the great & terrible	Sep 4 2009, 02:20 AM Post #1
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	It's about 1:20 AM on Friday the 3rd of September. I went outside and there was a gigantic, perfect ring of what looked like clouds around the moon. I immediately had superstitious thoughts about the feminine principle, especially since there was a planet within the circle that without reason I decided was Venus. So I turned to good ole Google and guess what? it's something that happens this time of year The full moon illuminates ice crystals in the atmosphere. If they're very high up, the circle is huge as it was tonight; if the circle is small, close to the moon, it means the moisture is low down and can indeed predict rain (though unreliably), as our ancestors believed. I had already been blown away today by Inglorious Basterds, and now here was another overwhelming reason to admire the creative principle, as well as the natural world shorn of superstition. When they threw that water on the Wicked Witch of the West, what were her last words? HINT: They weren't I'm melting, melting. After that she said "What a world," and after THAT she said --- what? The prize is a brand new untouched copy of Radio Patrol. And check the late night skies: no telling what you'll see this time of year! Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Sep 7 2009, 08:02 PM.
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Chandu	Sep 4 2009, 09:20 AM Post #2
Knowledge Seeker and rascal at large Posts: 10,276 Group: Members Member #297 Joined: October 19, 2007	One of our local weather forecasters said the bright planet near the moon was Jupiter.
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Pa Stark	Sep 4 2009, 09:57 AM Post #3
Charter Member Posts: 479 Group: Members Member #30 Joined: September 5, 2005	Nope, wasn't Venus Panzer. It was a full moon, and that time it would have been overhead, and since Venus is closer to the Sun than we are, you can't see it more than a couple of hours after sunset. Galileo Stark
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panzer the great & terrible	Sep 4 2009, 10:23 AM Post #4
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Well actually, Galileo, it was about halfway to the horizon, but I take your point. I said I assumed "without reason" that it was Venus, so I think I'm covered.
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Don Diego	Sep 4 2009, 11:48 AM Post #5
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 12,055 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: September 4, 2005	For Margret Hamiltons last dialogue - You cursed brat! Look what you've done! I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would've thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness? I'm gone! I'm gone! I'm going!



Black Tiger	Sep 4 2009, 05:17 PM Post #6
Charter Member Posts: 1,818 Group: Members Member #50 Joined: September 15, 2005	Thanks for the post, Panzer. I saw the moon and cloud formation as well and it impressed me that there was probably more to the celestial story than I knew.



panzer the great & terrible	Sep 7 2009, 07:54 PM Post #7
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Don Diego, message me your name and address and an unusually good serial is yours: and well-earned too! I'm very glad to have the words again. What with that there wickedness I don't have The Wizard any more.
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Don Diego	Sep 8 2009, 12:58 PM Post #8
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 12,055 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: September 4, 2005	Will do and thank you -- a great post as it a) got me to watch the movie again ( a treat) and had me dig out my old telescope for some sky watching (also a treat)



panzer the great & terrible	Sep 10 2009, 11:41 AM Post #9
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Don't forget to PM me your address, Don Diego.
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Don Diego	Sep 10 2009, 04:38 PM Post #10
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 12,055 Group: Members Member #18 Joined: September 4, 2005	I believe I have BUT I miht not have been successful - have you received the information?



Zodiac	Sep 10 2009, 06:30 PM Post #11
Balcony Gang, Foist Class Posts: 176 Group: Members Member #334 Joined: January 17, 2008	Panzer - thank you for your rather poetic post- it actually made me stop, think and remember to appreciate the gifts God has given us



panzer the great & terrible	Sep 10 2009, 08:59 PM Post #12
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,363 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	It's hard to be cynical when you see something that pure and majestic; it took my breath away. I actually woke the Grand Duchess up to see it, a risky proposition at best, and after the inevitable grumbling she actually thanked me for doing it.
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