I like the moon, but...

Well, just about all my kit is Meade and their variable was on sale at the time. Must be five years ago by now.

Works well, I just rarely use it. I've never been much into Lunar observing. Haven't observed much in a couple years, but I'm more into nebulae, globulars, planatary when their good (c'mon Mars).

The Moon was the last thing I wanted up when I pulled oout a scope.

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JamesMGMDP said:
You folks think the full moon is bright cuz you can walk in the dark by it, read (?) by it, see shadows cast by it (I like those)?

Try it through a scope...that bitch is blazing. In a way it's worse that you only see it through the one eye at a time. When you stand up from the eyepiece, it's like being blind in one eye. :D
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You're not kidding! I remember the first time I looked at the moon with my 8" SCT. I was set up on the edge of a country road, with a very deep ditch only about a half a metre away, with water rushing by in it. Looking at the moon was like staring at a lit lightbulb from a few cm's away. You're absolutely right - when I removed my eye from the eyepiece, I was completely blind in that eye. That's really disorienting, and I wasn't relishing the possibility of a March dip in the full ditch, so I stumbled to the car and waited the 20 minutes or so until I could see with both eyes again.

Went out the next day and bought a 13% ND filter. Plus, I suppose I could use my Hartmann mask in a pinch. Sure makes viewing the moon safer and easier.

bPer
 
Yup.

BTW, I knew right away what your nic was but not all of the details that have come out in this thread. Thanks all.

But for some reason...the first thought I had was that bPer was one of or the first other star with planets (found through pertubations) however many years ago now.

Feeling too lazy now to track down why I thought that.
 
Why, if the moon is made of grey coloured rock and dust, is it not grey at night, and why is it white like clouds in the day.
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No one that I noticed touched on this aspect of your question.

In some ways grey is not exactly a color. We see white things as grey when they are next to other .things that are brighter. So there is no way that you could ever see the moon as gray when it is the brightest thing in the sky. The fact that we ususally see it as white is an indication that it is reflecting the light falling on it evenly enough that we see the reflected light as white.
 
um, just my uneducated guess here,

What colors do you see when you look at a sun rise, or watch the sun go down. For the same reasons you see those colors, those are the colorful "rays" being reflected from the moon to where we can see it at the time.

When the moon is reflecting direct sunlight, the reflected light is whiter when we can see it.

More specifically, what he said:

Originally posted by MRC_Hans
I repeat: The moon appears yellow at night (a wide scale of yellow, from near white to orange, depending on hight over horizon and atmospheric conditions) because that is the light proper we receive from it after filtering. During the day, the bright blue is added to this, because the blue sky is in front of the moon, you see it through the blue sky. Thus, the yellow parts become whiter, and the dark parts become blue.

Hans
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Just popped in, because I like the moon as well (in fact, if it's going, I'll take it), but is there possibly some effect of ambient light? Human eyes operate over a very wide range of light intensities, and I wonder whether colour-sense is exactly calibrated - after all, evolution works towards what's useful, not what's necessarily best. Does night-level colour-sense have to be that good? Detecting moving objects would seem to be more important.
 
davefoc said:
Eos, I am not sure if you were disagreeing with me or not.

What I said was not in conflict with what MRC said and I agree with what MRC said.
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Yep, I'm totally agreeing too. I quoted it because it backed up my thoughts.:)
 
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