[TriLUG] OT: anyone in downtown Raleigh tall building?

[David McDowell]

here ya go, scientific explanation to the illusion:

http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/060907_moon_big.html


On 2/26/07, David McDowell <turnpike420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> yours photos are Nov 2003, mine are May 2003.... :)  cool shots
> though... I have a much better zoom (300mm IS USM) and DSLR this time
> around.  :)
>
> as to the illusion... yes, that it is, but the camera should pick it
> up as well... seen those sunsets on the African savanas on Discovery
> or National Geographic... same idea.  :)
>
> I think someone needs to not read the New Zealand reports when it
> comes to timing in North America.  ;)
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070223/sc_space/viewersguidemarch3totallunareclipse;_ylt=Avjzir2RV_cd7ojv3H46FL_637YB
>
> David
>
>
> On 2/26/07, Jim Wright <wrightjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > David McDowell wrote:
> > > Look here for
> > > photos of one I took from my condo near NCSU with a less than stellar
> > > camera a few years ago:
> > >
> > > http://www.turnpike420.net/gallery2/v/Weather/LunarEclipse/2003-05-15_Raleigh/
> > >
> > >
> > Some pictures of possibly the same eclipse, taken by my dad or his
> > wife...most likely at their house in SW Durham...
> > http://www.jimsboat.com/scrapbook2003_files/LunarEclipse2003.html
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