I watched it rise over the Berkeley Hills from the Marin Headlands. Was
wishing it would have risen over San Francisco and the Golden Gate, but
it's too far North on this trip around. I did spend a couple hours
taking a few 4x5s and a coupla rolls of slide film thru my 2 4Ts. It
was a welcome break from work and a great way to enjoy the moonrise.
Did it look any bigger? About .14 % to me :>) Brighter? Yeah, it
seemed quite a bit brighter. Probably less than 10% brighter.
George
Denton Taylor wrote:
>
> At 05:10 PM 12/23/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >Maybe a stupid question (I hardly know anything at all about these matters),
> >but did the moon by chance only appear much bigger in North America?
> >
> >Yesterday I looked at the moon and sure enough it was bright and full, but I
> >was underwhelmed by its size: to me it seemed equally big as normal...
> Over beautiful Brooklyn New York it did appear brighter but not a whit bigger.
>
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