Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!

Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:41 am

Tonight (October 6) is the night when the moon is supposedly the fullest and roundest. ^_^

If I remember rightly, in Hong Kong at least, you should wait until 11:54 PM and look at 72' to see the best view of the moon.

Last night was the night to 'welcome' the moon, and tomorrow will be 'chasing' the moon goodbye. So says the TV. I never knew we had special nights before and after the actual mid-autumn festival!

It's a time of eating mooncakes and round fruits with your family. I haven't had any mooncakes yet this year, surprisingly, so we'll have some tonight. Some people will be out with lanterns and walking the streets.

So keep an eye out for the moon tonight and happy mid-autumn festival!

Fri Oct 06, 2006 10:12 am

I was thinking last night the moon looked really round.

Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:46 pm

It's all cloudy.... :cry:

Oh, happy mid-autumn festival!

Website · Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:57 pm

Ooh! That should be really cool to see. Unfortunately, it's really cloudy... so I hope the clouds will go away. ;_;

Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:41 pm

hikaru_dream wrote:It's all cloudy....
Oh, happy mid-autumn festival!

Same here... Oh wait! It is fog not clouds!

Anyway... Yay Mid-Autumn Festival! I love crazy days like this!

Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:44 pm

They say all the weirdos come out at the full moon... well, I'm gonna be out tonight, so I guess it's true! :lol:

Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:23 pm

I was looking at the moon last night. It had a weird blue glow.

Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:16 pm

It was unusually bright last night. Everything that wasn't covered by trees were lit up enough that it looked a bit more like an overcast day or early evening rather than a clear night. It was a bit blinding. I'll have to check it tonight as well.

Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:16 am

bleh.. to bad its october 6th and its 97 degrees outside... >< if im lucky and value my life i'll stay inside and look out a window, or i can run outside and look up for a second..

Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:58 am

Wow. That moon is bright and round,

or my name isn't...I can't say it on the internet

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Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:09 am

I am so glad the fog and clouds have cleared. The moon looks great tonight. Damn. I should have gone to the campus observatory during their open hours yesterday. I heard they just looked at the moon all night. Oh well. Maybe next week they will be doing something just as cool next week.

Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:52 am

alien wrote:bleh.. to bad its october 6th and its 97 degrees outside... >< if im lucky and value my life i'll stay inside and look out a window, or i can run outside and look up for a second..

Wow, where do you live? It's about 47 here. (well, warmer than yesterday).

I went out and watched it, and it's as much as I expected. Extremely bright, enough to light up our yard a bit. It's very nice.

Website · Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:58 am

the moon was strangely huge last night, and it's never that big in Toronto.

Had some good meaning otherwise.

Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:40 pm

Thanks for that bit of knowledge Lillie. I told all my friends this last night while we were hopping bars: "The moon is big and round tonight... the biggest you'll ever see all year... look at it... according to the Duchess of Kent."

Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:38 pm

I was walking with Tim last night, and the moon at Penn State was centered right in the middle of this perfectly circular cloud formation. It was totally bizarre. Luckily, I had my digital camera on me, but unluckily, it couldn't take the picture well enough. However, there were some photography students out there, and I gave them my email address to send some of the pictures to if they turned out well on their super-spiffy cameras.