Super Moon is Coming in May 2012

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Biggest full moon of 2012
The moon turns full at 11:35 p.m. ET, and just 25 minutes later it will arrive at its closest point to Earth in 2012, at a distance of 221,801 miles.

HDR Users, Telescope Owners or others, this would be a night not to miss if your skies are clear! There are all kinds of theories on how major events (Quakes, Tsunamis, etc) are associated with a Super Moon, but I am mostly looking fwd to enjoying the beauty!
 
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Tonight is the night of the Supermoon! This article scoffs at the idea that a full moon spikes "crazy behavior...That's just folklore." It's NOT folklore! My mother worked at Fairview State Mental Hospital for many years before it closed. She spoke often how patients got very agitated and uncontrollable during a full moon.

I worked in casinos in Las Vegas for 10 years, and every time there was a full moon, the crazies came out of the woodwork! Everybody I worked with, including the bosses, used to talk about the "crazies coming out" on a full moon, and they did!

The ocean tides rise and fall during the presence and absence of a full moon. Our bodies are 90% water, so it makes sense that a full moon could have an affect on the human body, specifically the brain, when the full moon arrives. It's no myth!

Look! Up in the sky! It's supermoon!

NEW YORK (AP) -- The biggest and brightest full moon of the year arrives Saturday night as our celestial neighbor passes closer to Earth than usual.

But don't expect any "must-have-been-a-full-moon" spike in crime or crazy behavior. That's just folklore.

Saturday's event is a "supermoon," the closest and therefore the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. At 11:34 p.m., the moon will be about 221,802 miles from Earth. That's about 15,300 miles closer than average. hat proximity will make the moon appear about 14 percent bigger than it would if the moon were at its farthest distance, said Geoff Chester of the U.S. Naval Observatory. The difference in appearance is so small that "you'd be very hard-pressed to detect that with the unaided eye," he said. he moon's distance from Earth varies because it follows an elliptical orbit rather than a circular one.

Lke any full moon, the supermoon will look bigger when it's on or near the horizon rather than higher in the sky, thanks to an optical illusion, Chester noted. The full moon appears on the horizon at sunset. On the East coast, for example, that will be a bit before 8 p.m. Saturday.

The supermoon will bring unusually high tides because of its closeness and its alignment with the sun and Earth, but the effect will be modest, Chester said.

The last supermoon, on March 19, 2011, was about 240 miles closer than this year's will be. Next year's will be a bit farther away than this year's.

But no matter how far away a full moon is, it's not going to make people kill themselves or others, commit other crimes, get admitted to a psychiatric hospital or do anything else that popular belief suggests, a psychologist says.

Studies that have tried to document such connections have found "pretty much a big mound of nothing, as far as I can tell," said Scott Lilienfeld of Emory University. Lilienfeld, an author of "50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology," said the notion of full moons causing bizarre behavior ranks among the top 10 myths because "it's so widely held and it's held with such conviction."

Why do people cling to the idea? Lilienfeld said a key reason could be the way people pay attention to things. If something unusual happens to occur during a full moon, people who believe the myth take note and remember, even telling other people because it confirms their ideas. But when another full moon appears and nothing out of the ordinary occurs, "they're not very likely to remember" or point it out to others.
So in the end, he said, all they remember are the coincidences.
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Look! Up in the sky! It's Supermoon! Due Saturday |WOAI: San Antonio News
 

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I didn't use my HDR, but I has some pretty neat dreams last night.

I remembered almost all of them in the morning, which is not very usual. I figured it may have to do with the super moon.

What do you think?
 
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After all this build-up and hype, I forgot to look at the Supermoon! Sheesh, I had CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t) :rolleyes:

Himalayan Hermit said:
Looking fwd to use my Camera and Tripod tonight (it's clear skies and hopefully they will stay so) followed by HDR tonight and tomorrow!
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HH, did you take some photos? I hope so. :(
 
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Oh, I was able to see it. It was big and orange in my area when it was visible! :)
 
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Numenorean7 said:
I didn't use my HDR, but I has some pretty neat dreams last night.
I remembered almost all of them in the morning, which is not very usual. I figured it may have to do with the super moon. What do you think?
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I was so tired that I used it almost asleep so gave up as I was not following the process wholeheartedly :oops:

But I had an interesting result with my Pendulum use.

Samstwitch said:
After all this build-up and hype, I forgot to look at the Supermoon! Sheesh, I had CRS (Can't Remember Sh*t) :rolleyes:
HH, did you take some photos? I hope so. :(
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Yea, in the Bay Area - moon did not seem that big at all. I don't know how it seems so big in those news paper pics :mad:. Num, better put some pics. I will post mine soon on picasa and share the link here!
 
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Himalayan Hermit said:
Yea, in the Bay Area - moon did not seem that big at all. I don't know how it seems so big in those news paper pics :mad:. Num, better put some pics. I will post mine soon on picasa and share the link here!
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I'm in Southern California, so maybe I didn't miss much, as you're in San Francisco. But I cannot tell you how bummed out missing this made me, especially when I was looking forward to it. I have to write daily activities down due to CRS, otherwise I forget what the day holds! :( Long ago, I used to have a perfect memory.
 

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