I'd like you to know that when you want to show a very pretty full moon on or near the horizon, please don't make the time be midnight. At midnight the full moon is where the sun would be at noon.
well, sometimes yes, others no. From our latitude, yesterday was a full moon, and moonrise here was 20:18 hours. . . day after tomorrow moonrise will be at 23:28, but not quite full any more.
Silly boy, it's midnight in the timezone where you're watching it, not in the scene!!!! That's why movies you see filmed on the west coast are always off when you see them here.
But they had to do it that way so you could see the wave obscuring the moon!
It's funny how a knowledge of science can sometimes spoil your appreciation of art. I suck at suspending disbelief, but usually watching a movie puts my critical brain on hold so I just don't notice unrealistic things. (Unless the movie's really bad - that seems to make me hyper-aware.) Once I do notice them, though, I can't ignore them anymore.
Last night, about 11:30PM, I saw what appeared to be a full moon very near the horizon. I am sure about the time, etc., because I had already read this post and was therefore paying attention.
Last night about 11:30 pm EDT the moon was approximately 45 hours from full, and would have rose about 10:36 as seen from Rochester, which would have made it low to the sky at 11:30. It may be that I am fussier about what makes a full moon rather than an "nearly" full moon than the average person.
Ya think, maybe? I've seen what appeared to be full moons up during daylight and of course the full moon near the horizon in fall that appears full and gets called a 'blood moon' (red) or 'harvest moon' (orange).
I've seen 3rd quarter moon many times during daylight, but it is always quite different than a full moon. Part of the reason I got annoyed at the movie was they made a point of how low the moon was to show it being covered by the rogue wave.
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The following information is provided for Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York (longitude W76.5, latitude N42.4):
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13 May 2006 Eastern Daylight Time
SUN
Begin civil twilight 5:14 a.m.
Sunrise 5:46 a.m.
Sun transit 1:02 p.m.
Sunset 8:19 p.m.
End civil twilight 8:51 p.m.
MOON
Moonrise 8:07 p.m. on preceding day
Moon transit 12:54 a.m.
Moonset 5:34 a.m.
Moonrise 9:18 p.m.
Moonset 6:09 a.m. on following day
Full Moon on 13 May 2006 at 2:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
Just so you know, I'm a professional astronomer. :)
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It's funny how a knowledge of science can sometimes spoil your appreciation of art. I suck at suspending disbelief, but usually watching a movie puts my critical brain on hold so I just don't notice unrealistic things. (Unless the movie's really bad - that seems to make me hyper-aware.) Once I do notice them, though, I can't ignore them anymore.
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very near the horizon. I am sure about the time, etc., because I
had already read this post and was therefore paying attention.
So what gives?
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That's got to be it. Especially since, to my untrained eye, it seems like the full moon lasts approximately 3 days.