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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 445759" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Okay I'm no scientist, just an amateur astronomer - and I love the stars, moon, planets - so my best guess as to why it's going so fast? </p><p></p><p>The days are getting shorter -and in July is typically when people harvest hay. SO the extra light of the moon has been used by farmers to see the fields to work because July is also one of the rainest months of the year and you can't harvest hay when it's wet. Sometimes I think it would have been necessary to use dry Summer nights with big bright moons to get the harvest in. By the time we get to the Autumnal equinox in September when there is the Harvest Moon? The days are really short. The moon orbits around the earth in the Fall and Winter months at the horizon faster than it is during the Summer and Spring. Since you are in the North? With the days getting shorter - you'd see a bright big moon for a little bit longer. In September you Around the 20th of the month? There will be a moon so HUGE and so Magnificent it will look like it's sitting RIGHT on the horizon. IT can be red in color or bright orange. THEY are PHENOMINAL! I've rarely seen them here in SC like I ever did up North. WE used to sit in the cornfields and watch them come up. </p><p></p><p>I'll check and see if I cant find a chart on them - so you don't miss any more and can teach the Grands all about Waxing and Waning Gibbous and what they mean. The lunar phases. Who knows someone might be on Jeopardy or MIllionaire one day and that would be one of the questions. Let me check around to see. AND FYI - different cultures call moons different names. </p><p></p><p>Oh and the Blue moon - like when people say "Once in a blue moon" - yeah no "blue" colored moon. That means when there are TWO full moons in one month. (now you know too) </p><p></p><p>Hugs...Moondoggie. </p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td></td></tr></table></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 445759, member: 4964"] Okay I'm no scientist, just an amateur astronomer - and I love the stars, moon, planets - so my best guess as to why it's going so fast? The days are getting shorter -and in July is typically when people harvest hay. SO the extra light of the moon has been used by farmers to see the fields to work because July is also one of the rainest months of the year and you can't harvest hay when it's wet. Sometimes I think it would have been necessary to use dry Summer nights with big bright moons to get the harvest in. By the time we get to the Autumnal equinox in September when there is the Harvest Moon? The days are really short. The moon orbits around the earth in the Fall and Winter months at the horizon faster than it is during the Summer and Spring. Since you are in the North? With the days getting shorter - you'd see a bright big moon for a little bit longer. In September you Around the 20th of the month? There will be a moon so HUGE and so Magnificent it will look like it's sitting RIGHT on the horizon. IT can be red in color or bright orange. THEY are PHENOMINAL! I've rarely seen them here in SC like I ever did up North. WE used to sit in the cornfields and watch them come up. I'll check and see if I cant find a chart on them - so you don't miss any more and can teach the Grands all about Waxing and Waning Gibbous and what they mean. The lunar phases. Who knows someone might be on Jeopardy or MIllionaire one day and that would be one of the questions. Let me check around to see. AND FYI - different cultures call moons different names. Oh and the Blue moon - like when people say "Once in a blue moon" - yeah no "blue" colored moon. That means when there are TWO full moons in one month. (now you know too) Hugs...Moondoggie. [TABLE="align: center"] [TR] [TD="class: Font_Normal"][/TD] [TD="class: Font_Normal, width: 80%"][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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