Biggest moon ive ever witnessed! 2 days ago(Nov 29)...

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So the moon can move that fast? i mean it hadnt even been 3 mins like i said, and it was gone

I noticed the same thing a few days earlier. It surprised me how it seemed to disappear, and then "jump" to a totally different location the following night. SJNR...(something's just not right).

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Very glad to know that me and my friend werent the only ones to witness it! What is going on?

Well, I don't know in particular, but I believe all of these weird sightings are signs that Jesus is coming back. Everything in Revalation is happening now. I'm excited!

Last Edited by Dease on 12/02/2011 01:32 AM

A black gal in Chicago or Atlanta?

Me too!

Huh?

lol
I saw the same thing, the same night at Sweden.

Was going to take a photo of it, from a better vantage point, but when I got there by bike, the moon was nowhere to be found. I was at a more elevated point, and there were very little clouds in the sky out of what I could see.

Crescent? yes, yellow\reddish? yes.

Strange? Maybe..

"That's no moon.... It's a space station...."

Nice video there. You really captured it.

It's a well known optical illusion that the moon looks bigger near the horizon. It's been documented for centuries.

The fact that it apparently "disappeared" is because it set, which isn't surprising if it was near the horizon (and if you changed position it's possible your horizon had changed too).

what you didn't get was the fact that the moon comes back the next night in a completely different place...

look at the threads from the october moon.

I even noticed this in october because I had been indoors with a sick relative for the past 5 weeks and got home about October 26th.

I watched the moon for several nights and it was irratic in it;s position in the sky.

Did you watch the vid?

Have you watched the moon set before?

The Moon in that vid set WAY to fast and it was completely because of the traffic/street light illusion....in fact, it would appear that the movement of the cars confirms it is not fast forwarded.

Orion is not in the correct place or orientation.

It has been my favorite constellation my whole life(almost 50) it is tilted, like on his back yet should be in a more standing position...leaning back a little....

yes, I understand summer and winter tilt of the earth, but his belt has always been mostly across the sky, not up and down as it is now.

big dipper as well cus you use that to find the north star...

Lord, I watch for you, my salvations draws nigh.

The Moon in that vid set WAY to fast and it was completely because of the traffic/street light illusion....in fact, it would appear that the movement of the cars confirms it is not fast forwarded.





My mistake...It was NOT completely because of the.....

inother words, the vid was/is valid reguardless of what else was in it.

thanks

I saw it in Portugal in the night of the 30 of November, its bloddy red and it was huge! Me and my girfriend were driving home and we saw it! We already had seen it last year by the almost same day (last year we saw it in 26 of November). We then decided to go to the beach to see it better, because it was to low to see, the buildings are tall here. We drove almost ten minutes and when we got to the beach we only saw for a minute, then it was gone! Never seen that night again!!!!

We have a full moon and a total eclipse of the moon on Dec 10th.

Yes, as it does every night/day... The moon takes about 29 days to orbit the earth, and every night/day it rises in a different place, has a different phase, follows a different path across the sky, and sets in a different place.

In fact, it takes 18.5 years for a complete cycle before it'll rise in the same place at the same time again.

I put that as night/day, because a lot of the time the moon doesn't rise or set at night, it does it during the day - another fact which may interest you...


See above - it's not supposed to be in the same place at the same time every night.


LOL - a lot more often than you apparently. I've been an amateur astronomer for over 40 years, and I've observed the moon many times, in all different phases, during lunar and solar eclipses, and at all times of day and night.

What you're seeing is perfectly normal, just surprising if you aren't used to how the moon moves in the sky.


I watched it - the moon didn't set, it just moved up and down a bit, most of which was due to movement of the car and camera...


Again, you need to spend more time observing. When Orion is rising the belt is almost vertical, and only appears horizontal when it's fairly high in the sky. You're seeing it early in the evening, just after rising at the moment, so it's "tilted over". Wait until about midnight, and look again. Then, if you really want to understand what's going on, get up about 6 am and look to the west - you'll see Orion setting, tilted over the other way :)


You need to understand that the "circumpolar constellations" as they're known rotate around the pole star, and will appear to be at all sorts of angles depending on the time of night and time of year...


Pray all you want, but it won't change the fact that all these things are completely normal, well understood, and have been observed and documented for centuries by astronomers, navigators and people who just look at the sky...

ALL RIGHT SMARTY PANTZ, how bout you tell me what is causing this sound...

Ah well now, that's quite a complex question to answer. You see, it's all to do with the interaction of the tire tread, the road surface, and the vehicle speed.

The waveform produced at any instant is a superposition of the frequencies derived from the tread pattern's rate of interaction with the road surface, which is of course a function of the wheel size and velocity, and hence the angular velocity of the wheel, plus the overtones from the finer patterning of the road's surface material, presumably an asphalt / gravel mix in a pseudo-random matrix.

Also there are some effects from wind noise, which add higher frequencies as well.

HTH

Taken to extremes, the effect can even be used to play music - [link to www.youtube.com]