[MRCA] 221,524 Miles Off Topic

[B. Smith]

When you are trying to get a moon celestial shot and in the clouds a 
larger  moon helps.
Z


On 11/14/2016 10:10 AM, Peter Gottlieb wrote:
> Depends. If you really like pizza then getting 14% more is pretty nice.
>
> As for the moon, not such a big deal.
>
> Although, with science skeptics on the rise, what do you expect?  Next we'll have people freaking out at the next eclipse.
>
>
> Peter
>
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:59 AM, Al Klase <ark at ar88.net> wrote:
>>
>> I'm really growing tired of all this Supermoon talk.  It's a term made up by astrologers.  At least somebody is talking sense:
>>
>> One well-known astronomer takes a very dim view of the term supermoon. Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, thinks the term is highly overblown. "There is something called a supermoon," Tyson has noted, adding, "I don't know who first called it a supermoon. I don't know, but if you have a 16-inch pizza, would you call that a super pizza compared with a 15-inch pizza?"
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>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5-i-I2DUa0
>>
>> -- 
>> Al Klase – N3FRQ
>> Jersey City, NJ
>> http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/
>>
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