Earth says winter, sky says spring

[smokingboot]

Pink and blue sky, glittering grass, the moon still hanging there straight west, fainter than the frost, birds sailing across its surface. Pretty morning.

I like waning moons. They look a bit crazed and sinister at night, but in the morning, they always make me think of a kindly face peeking out at you. My scientific ignorance is so great, I don't know why the moon disappears in the day. If anyone reading this can dispel my duncehood, twould be a kindly thing to do!

Lots to do, including travel down to London. I love the show but now have a stupid amount of work to do, and I need to manage my time with a little discipline.

Which I guess means leaving lj land for now. Catch you later!

Comments

[falco-biarmicus.livejournal.com]

Stars and moon (when not obscured by the earth) are still there. But the sun is so bright, you can't see them. To demonstrate - take a torch outside at night and point it at the sky - you'll see the beam going up. Repeat during the day, and whilst you'll see the light source of the torch if you get up close and personal, the light wont apear to travel very far.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will, at some point, try this experiment, just to get this straight in my mind.

[sixtine.livejournal.com]

To add to fb. The reason you see the moon at night is because the sun's light reflects off its surface. The direct light from the sun is far brighter than the reflected light of the sun.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I find this very interesting! Is there a reason why mooonlight seems to change hue? Most often silver white, but I have seen great big gold moons, pink ones and even, on one occasion in Norfolk of all places, a huge orange moon. Looked like a massive tangerine dancing around in front of us. Atmospheric anomalies perhaps.

[sixtine.livejournal.com]

I can't remember why but there is a reason. It's to do with time of year I think and distance. For example, have you heard of a 'harvest moon'? It's the big orange one you get in the Autumn and happens like clockwork.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

See, now I'm trying to work out a Clockwork Orange joke but it just won't come. I saw a very strange thing last time we were on the road down to Manchester from Glasgow; the moon seemed to be a very very pale shade of green with a pale yellow white centre. All those moon = green cheese nursery rhymes occured to me. I had no idea they were based on reality.