I have witnessed history tonight (or last night). I reveled in the glory that was the Super Harvest Moon.
According to NASA, on September 22, 2010,
For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for a “Super Harvest Moon”…
Northern summer changes to fall on Sept. 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT. At that precise moment, called the autumnal equinox, the Harvest Moon can be found soaring high overhead with the planet Jupiter right beside it. The two brightest objects in the night sky will be in spectacular conjunction to mark the change in seasons.
.This also means that yesterday was Mid-Autumn Festival for Chinese, the second most important holiday arguably after Chinese New Year. Did I remember it? Of course not. I really suck at being Chinese… So I made it up by trying to capture the image of Super Harvest Moon for posterity.
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This picture taken with my iPhod. Amazingly clear.
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Can you see the “spur” of light below the moon? That is Jupiter. Neither can I. Sorry. You just have to take my word for it: Jupiter was there. Right underneath the moon. It was so bright that I kept on asking Mr. Monk, “Are you sure it’s not an airplane? It is not moving?”
Sorry if it looks like a bullet hole on a piece of black canvas.
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This time I tried to take a picture with my Blackberry
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You can see why Blackberry is just not as sexy as iPhones…
This picture of the moon unfortunately reminds me of something that rhymes with one of the planets. Or it is calling my name to go through the tunnel. Maybe both at the same time. It is kind of disturbing to say the least…
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Since my Nikon failed me, I used my Flip video to capture the glory of the moon
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It annoyed me to no end that my Nikon completely failed me. Most likely user error but I am blaming it on the machine, like most callers to IT Help Lines.
When I remembered that I could use my video cameras for the job, the clouds came. So now Freddy Krueger can pop into the frame at any second. I get dizzy staring at this picture. Am I in a nightmare already? (3:41 am already? Yup. Better be in a nightmare otherwise I’ll have hell to pay tomorrow morning at 6 am when the alarm goes off…)
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A la Monet
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This one took the longest time to produce: I first used my Casio digital to capture a 7-second video of the night sky. I wanted to post it on my Facebook and be done with the whole thing but Facebook said it would take 76 hours to upload the file.
16.6 MB for 7 seconds of footage. Srly?
I ended up taking a screenshot of my laptop as the video was playing. Opened up Visio. Ctrl+V to paste the picture into Visio. Cropped the picture and saved it into a JPG file. Viola! Here you have a grainy picture of the moon, covered by dark clouds.
I expect either fiddlers to start showing up from the other side of the roof or the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw to materialize in this picture.
Super Harvest Moon has come and gone. The next one won’t be here till 2029. (The thought of how old I will be… STOP! BRAIN! Don’t even go there! Where was I?) Welcome Autumn because this means we can finally put up Halloween decorations and apple cider donuts are now officially in vogue.
I am going to bed. BUT not before I make it up to you by leaving you with this Harvest Moon in its finest…
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This cracks me up so much. Yes Apple definitely should hire you.
BlackBerrys are definitely not as sexy as iPhones. Because with an iPhone, you can take a picture of a Harvest Moon while listening to the song “Harvest Moon” by Neil Young while watching a video of Neil Young performing “Harvest Moon” on YouTube while setting a calendar alert for the next Harvest Moon in 2029 and using the calculator to figure out how old you’ll be and googling chiropractors because all those hours of staring at the moon probably did a number on your neck.
Also? The iPhone is a phone. Crazy, right?
Apple should probably hire me.
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I stood out in the yard in my PJ’s and took photos, too. I saw Jupiter, but my dinky camera didn’t.
Is Mr. Monk interested in astronomy?
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He is not particularly into astronomy, or anything really. But he has learned to recognize the Big Dipper and Orion’s Belt. Just enough to impress the girls some day. 😉
it was gorgeous!!
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I bet you have a super lens that would have been able to capture a better picture!
It was beautiful. I love full moons. Really, the moon in all its stages.
Have you ever noticed that the people who tend to moon in the way of that scarecrow rarely have an ass you’d actually like to see?
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No shit! Just go to People of Walmart website and lordy!
So funny. I spit orange juice all over. Thanks.
Now I am going to think of the age I will be in 2029 all day long.
Holy cow.
Please don’t stop coming back just because I made you waste OJ and depressed. 😉
I really suck at being Chinese
If it makes you feel better, so do I.
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It was a beautiful moon wasnt it? I thought that Uranus was under the moon, and Jupiter was to the side. Oops… I was wrong. God that left a bad taste in my mouth saying that…..LOL!
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I still cannot believe they kept that name all these years and nobody has ever staged a protest against the indecency of it. 😉
How is it that I missed a “super harvest” moon I’ve got veggies to pick.
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In October, there is Hunter’s Moon. I guess Beware of Cougars then. 😉
Last night around 10pm whle taking the dog out for her last hurrah of the evening. I looked up into the sky. The moon was bright and full-it was beautiful. I saw jupiter clearly just beneath the moon. It was a stunning evening. I wish I would have taken more care to photograph it.
You were up till almost 4am? I would have been worthless when the alarm went off.
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So glad you saw Jupiter there too!
The next day was just painful for me at work…
OMG, I am so easily amused, too, I guess!
It’s always nice to know I am not the only one. LOL
muahahah the harvest moons is fucking epic.
Tru dat! 🙂
First…thank you for visiting me today. Second…bwaahahahahaha over the mooning scarecrow. That is priceless!! Love your pics…gorgeous.
Thank you!
Ugh I miss things like the moon.
It’s so damned cloudy in the UK I almost forget that there are sources of light in the night sky.
Lovely shots, though.
Well, you know. Except the last one.
– B x
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Well you do get to wear something called Wellies all the time! 😉
The last picture made me laugh too.
Yes, last night’s moon was huge and beautiful, and in the early evening, a lovely pale orange.
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I missed the pale orange moon. I am waiting for the blood moon (Hunter’s Moon)
Okay, that last picture made me laugh out loud.
You can make some nice soup with those bums.
Lord lady, how many cameras do you carry around at a single time? No wonder people are always complimenting you on your English. 🙂
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So THAT’s why the moon was so huge and still visible this morning at 6:45am! Great shots! My God you have a lot of picture-taking equipment.
Violinists are fine, but if you hear banjo music you get the hell out of there FAST!
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Yes. I am just so happy that Elly does NOT play the banjo!
I missed watching the moonrise, forgot all about it until bedtime. As a child, my rural-reared grandmother taught me about the meanings of each full moon; she never missed an equinox moon and I missed her last night.
Thanks for working so hard to capture the moment!
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Now I need to google the meanings of each full moon.
The moon was lovely last night! It made me want to sing to it, so it must be something magical because I sing for no one. I am picturing you with twelve different pieces of technology around you as you capture your photos. And I want a photo of that!
LOL. It does look quite ridiculous.
The first two pictures are stunningly clear. Good thing you stayed up several more hours and worked furiously to get the additional pictures of the cloud covered moon. 🙂
xxxooo The things you do for us sometimes amaze me. I had no idea the Autumn Harvest Moon was such a special event for the Chinese. I learned something already and it is only 5:30am. Does this mean I can go back to bed? I didn’t think so. Le’ sigh.
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Yes. I sacrifice myself all the time. Now put out. LOL. ;-P
yesterday at twiligh the moon was so beautiful here in the equator. i canit wait to see her again this afternoon. and yea, i tried to take her picture with my pocket camera, but failed.
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Seeing how it is past 4 am already, I am so grateful I have people from the other time zone to hang out with! 🙂