Did anyone in the uk see the moon last night?
I was driving home from Wales last night (which is a long sorry story but hey) and the moon (two days from being the full Harvest Moon) was HUGE! It was bright orange and about three times the size it normally is.
Upon arriving a couple of hours later to my house I ventured forth to the back garden to contemplate life with some "oregano" and saw that the moon was back to normal size and a bright silver in colour. (Might be worth adding that it was this colour prior, during and after the oregano experience so it wasn't the well known visual impairement from this).
Now, I'm no physicist and I've heard some crude explanations that this visual effect is to do with atmoshpere etc but none of those things really explain the differences that I saw last night. Can anyone validate this or care to speculate as to why I saw what I did?
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