How Bright the Full Moon!
Taz and I were out for our bedtime walk tonight and it is almost like dawn out there. It is amazing and beautiful. The moon is 99% illuminated tonight with 100% tomorrow night. I am no astronomer so I can’t even begin to rationalize this, but the moon seems to be so much brighter when it is full here than I have seen anywhere else I’ve been. Is it because all that illumination is bouncing off the ocean as well as down on the “rock”? Perhaps it’s just that the moon is closer here near the equator from say Seattle.
Regardless it was a stormy day with some rain, and it was pretty overcast all day. Who would have thought in just a couple hours this evening it would become so clear that you could see the moon and the stars so well? What a wonderful surprise!
I’ll try to take a few pictures tomorrow night and see if I can do a nighttime moonlight shot. Wow, maybe I’ll even crack out the tripod.
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