It’s beautiful.
Here is an interesting picture as the moon rises in Wash DC at the Lincoln Memorial. The moon looks on fire.
Bruce Almighty must have a date tonight.
There’s little enough ambient light where I am that any full moon puts out a LOT of light, enough that it looks like in movies – I’d never seen moonlight quite that bright before I ended up here. So this ought to be a treat, though I’ll have to go out again in a bit; the sky is looking promisingly bright to the east, but no moon yet.
Isn’t it at perigee every month though? Or is it just that it’s perigee AND a full moon? It’s completely cloudy here so I won’t be able to see it at all.!
Ugh, what a drag… completely overcast tonight. 
(I’m working in Virginia right now, not in NYC.) I couldn’t even see it at all until it was too high to look any different than any other full moon. Boo.
So, tomorrow, will it be the closest it’s been in 18 years minus 1? I assume we’ll have another chance to see it almost like we would have seen it tonight, yes?
It’s SO bright. It’s just partly cloudy here, and we’re seeing godrays from the moon. Just spectacular!
My son and I have been outside a few times already. I hope he remembers this.
Still cracks me up when think of Ren telling Stimpy that line:
Sigh. We’ve had rain all week, and it’s pouring now. No chance. What do I live in California for if it’s going to rain during the cool moon thing?
Too overcast for us to see it here. I’m bummed.
Perigee is it’s closest approach during each orbit, which happens every 28 days. But the distance varies by thousands of km. This one is special because it’s a very close approach, and because it’s during a full moon. If you look at the link in my last post, you can see the date and time of the perigee and apogee each month, and the distance from earth, and the number of days/hours/minutes from the full or new moon.
Sunny all day, then the clouds moved in around 4 p.m. :mad: