Re: Moon Erratic

by CATALOG, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 18:11 @ Firefly

I see this too, but not on any kind of intellectual level. I like to go out and sit by a fire at night (Not drinking either) - Sometimes I look up and the moon is so out of place it instincutally frightens me. If you pay attention to anything specifically it just becomes habit. It's as obvious to me as if my car were suddenly missing from the driveway. What I find stranger than it being out of place, is how quickly it returns to where it should be.

CATALOG
SC

: Dec 12, 2008, posted on RumorMill.com
: About two weeks ago, the moon was rising and crossing the sky
: from the southeast to the southwest. I observed this from
: my windows that face to the south. Living in a rural area
: in the midwest, there's not many trees or such to obstruct
: my view. Earlier this week, I noticed the moon rising and
: crossing the sky from the northeast to the northwest,
: almost directly overhead. I no longer can see it from my
: windows. I took astronomy years ago but for the life of me,
: I cannot determine exactly how much a degree difference the
: moon's path has moved. A rough estimate would be so far off
: base, I won't even insult our readers' intelligence. Maybe
: I'm imagining things but I'm fairly certain of my
: observation. Is anyone else noticing this, too?

: I was thinking that last night at 3am when the moon woke me up
: coming thru a window that it normally doesn't. Something is
: different.

: Dec 13, 2008, via email from Wisconsin
: The news has shown a large moon over Fayetteville N.C. Last
: nights moon was suppose to be much larger then normal.Yet I
: watched the moon come up and watched it off and on all
: night and it was the smallest that I have seen in a long
: time. I have seen it that small only a few times in my
: life. Another strange thing is that it rose almost straight
: up from the horizon straight to zenith. Usually it arcs
: across the sky at an angle dipping southward. The question
: is, are they lying to us about the size of the moons
: appearance? Or is it actually only that small size here in
: Wisconsin? Or did something go wrong with the moons orbit
: again and they are covering it up?

: Dec 15, 2008, via email from Texas
: My son heard a reference to the moon's orbit wobbling on the
: local news.