Sunday, October 4, 2009

Night Observations 2

In the past couple of weeks, the sky has been very clear, thus making nighttime observation of the moon and celestial objects quite east. Jupiter has remained high up in the sky in a South-easterly direction and is consistently visible each time I walk into my driveway to observe. The Moon however has been shifting across the sky nightly now, having started out in the Southwest-West it has now moved over to almost directly East, and even approaching the Northeast. The Moon itself has been very bright and clear each night. Each night for the past 3 days even the Moon has appeared to be at its Fullest phase, although this is obviously not true. Tonight in particular as I was leaving my neighborhood headed directly East, the Moon was just off the horizon by about one fist length. It was very round and appeared incredibly full, and it also had a yellow-orange tint.

No comments:

Post a Comment