Saturday, January 10, 2009

Moon in Perigee

The moon is full and shining on the snow dazzlingly white tonight.

I just took a newspaper outside and I could read it. Well, the headlines.

At only 357,500km, the moon is as close to the earth as it will be for several months.

At around 7am today it was setting over a frozen Northumberland Strait, it's glow reflecting on the ice. It looked like a big orangey red ball sitting on an orange saucer. Quite stupendous.

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