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Friday, December 12, 2008

The Biggest Moon

Driving to pick up Mrs Neo this evening, i can't help but notice how big the moon is today.
By right, it's all a visual effect on the eye.

I saw a documentary about the moon on Discovery. The moon is as big as ever, ever though it might look bigger when it first appears and then smaller when it's halfway up in the sky. But that's simply because up in the sky, there's no buildings for our eyes to compare the size with. So if you were to use your the eraser at the end of a pencil, strectch out your hand and measure the moon using that when it first appear and when it's up in the sky.

It's the same size.

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Well, that doesn't really matter to most of us, as long as the moon remains in the sky for most of our days. (But it's really moving away from Earth, again, won't happen in my time and the Sun will stop buring before the Moon, so really not a concern to me)

Picking up Mrs Neo & driving home, we talked about how big and bright the moon is as today's the 15th of the chinese lunar month. Then she got an Sms from Darren which she read to me.
I can't remember the full content of it, but i only remember "The biggest Moon".

Thus, here it is! The best 2shots.
i took 10shots, held my breath like mad due to the low lights and the shutter took damn long to close. A tripod will be handy, but i used the army way of breath in, breath out halfway, aim, shoot.

I was a marksman ok.






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