Sunday, July 25, 2010

Waiting for the Man in the Moon



July's full moon, called the Green Corn Moon, Mead Moon, Claiming Moon, Rose Moon, Hay Moon, Thunder Moon, and the Buck Moon is especially low in the sky this year, when it reaches its highest around 1 a.m. Sadly the moon has not been visible here for several nights, but the nights it was it was surrounded by it humidity halo., or playing hide and seek with the storm clouds.
the humidity that cause me to call it the Green bread Moon.


“Man in the Moon” is easily visible. However other cultures see a witch carrying sticks or an old man with a lantern (both English), a woman by a tree (New Zealand), a cook standing over a fire (Polynesia) or a rabbit (China, Aztecs and others). In some parts of Europe they describe a man banished to the moon for some crime, or the Romans sheep thief; the Germans see a man who stole switches from his neighbor’s hedgerow to repair his own. Christians have seen him as a Sabbath breaker banished to the moon, or as Cain, who murdered his brother Able. the dark areas of the face are the Seas of the moon, and are actually lava fields.




"Astronomically speaking, however, the full moon has no actual duration, but occurs at a well-defined instant. The moon is astronomically full when it stands 180 degrees opposite the sun in Earth’s sky. That happens this evening – on Sunday, July 25 – at 8:36 p.m. Central Time (9:36 p.m. Eastern Time, 7:36 p.m. Mountain Time and 6:36 p.m. Pacific Time).

For everyday reference, we can say the full moon lasts the whole night. After all, the moon’s face will be more than 99% illuminated all night long. What’s more, the moon will remain more or less opposite the sun throughout the night."-Bruce McClure

I will be watching tonight as the moon breaks above the tree line, the fireflys will be the twinkling through the finally cool night sky. I can only wonder what "the man in the Moon" is thinking about.

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