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This is a great night to be outside. Especially at 9:30. People can add to this thought. It is a bright full moon. Uranus and Jupiter are at Opposition and it is the Chinese Moon Festival. It is beautiful out the sky is clear and in the tradition of the Moon Festival have something to eat at 9:30 while enjoying the celestial delights. China: Moon Festival (or Mid-Autumn Festival): Information from Answers.com
Sept 22. According to folk legend this day is the birthday of the earth god T’u-ti Kung. The festival indicates the year’s hard work in the fields will soon end with the harvest. People express gratitude to heaven as represented by the moon and to earth as symbolized by the earth god for all good things from the preceding year. Special harvest foods are eaten, especially “moon cakes.” Observed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival is called by different names in different places, but is widely recognized throughout the Far East, including Taiwan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Date here is for China; date in other countries will differ.
Thanks for pointing this out. We went outside for a while after I saw you posted this and it is absolutely gorgeous out. Really puts things in perspective.
I love the bright full moon and its buddy Venus. I forgot to mention that but it was awesome. Ate at 9:30 per Chinese Moon Festival. Must have been awesome at the ocean.
Hard to see Uranus with binoculars because of the bright moon nearby. Should be a little easier the next few nights as the moon moves farther away from Uranus and Jupiter.
It was a wondrous sky! Absolutely 'star' stuck ok maybe it was 'planet' struck but it sure was cool! The moon looked so large this morning in the night sky yet its only the size of an atom in the vastness of the universe! As they say, "the sky is just out of this world!"
Yeah it is sky's like this that put it all in perspective. Is the moon conservative or progressive? It has and will be here longer than our politics.
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