Last week, I watched a just-past-full moon rise over the sea, from a place where the sky was dark enough to observe a lunar “dawn” — the sky noticeably brightening before the moon appeared above the horizon. Not as spectacular as a solar dawn, but beautiful in its own subtle way.
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The Apollo 12 lunar lander over the Moon • NASA (Public Domain)
Stirring color images from black-and-white lunar landscape
Seldom has a scientific and technological story been turned into higher art than Michael Light’s Full Moon, a volume of photographs from the Apollo missions to the Moon.
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It’s moon-walking season
At 1:58 this morning the moon was full. Last night and again tonight it will rise in the east at sunset, huge, golden, glorious.
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The moon rose like a stage set
Yesterday, just at sunset, the moon rose full. Tonight, if the sky is clear, a nearly-full moon will rise again — golden, majestic, and startlingly large.
Size comparison of the Earth and moon (Public Domain)
The moon’s too big to suit some of us
A full moon is fine for lovers and poets. But for astronomers, professional and amateur, the moon can be a bit of a nuisance.
Buzz Aldrin on the moon • NASA / Neil A. Armstrong
A mixed legacy
Where were you at 4:17 p.m., on Sunday, July 20, 1969?