It was bright

You may have noticed the extra bright moon on our last full moon--the night of the tenth.

Felix, one of our critters on our place, writes:

Posted by Felix
did yu miss the moon?? i hope not.

this iz frum space weather .com

EXTRA MOONLIGHT: No, it wasn't your imagination. The full Moon of Jan. 11th really was extra bright. Dr. Elmar Schmidt of the SRH University of Applied Sciences in Heidelberg, Germany, used an absolutely-calibrated photometer to precisely measure the moonlight and found it more than 50% brighter than that of a typical full Moon. This made it possible, for example, to skate the frozen canals of the Netherlands long after dark:

"The bright moonlight was perfect for skating," says Jan Koeman of Oosterschenge. "I photographed the skaters using my Nikon D300--no flash required."

Three factors contributed to the Moon's extraordinary brightness:

1. The Moon was at perigee, the side of the Moon's elliptical orbit closest to Earth.

2. The Earth-Moon system was near perihelion, the side of Earth's elliptical orbit closest to the sun. Extra sunlight increased the reflected luminosity of the Moon.

3. The Sun-Earth-Moon trio were almost perfectly aligned. This triggered a strong opposition effect--an intense brightening of the lunar surface caused by the temporary elimination of normal shadows.


yu wil be mad at yorself if yu missed it. i thank it iz rair if not vairy rair. elin haz sum pics of it if yu want sum. ask elin for sum of the pics of the moon of januwairy elevinth. to bad yu are in the city :(:(:(

This image is one of the paths by our creek. You can see the individual blades of grass easily.


If you look closely, you can see a blue spot on the left center of the image. It is Josh's bales of straw for his bow and arrow practice.


This is one of our fields.


An out building.


Do you recognize anyone?


These pictures are raw pictures, no time lapse or anything. If you look on them you can see the colors.