freaky moon!!!!!

praiseach

can anybody tell me whats up with the moon i have never ever seen it this orange or big in my life??????

wudangclan

it's the new ad campaign from the phone company

Jesus Wept

Post a picture, I can't be arsed leaving my computer.

Overflow

Yeah post a pic for us who are not back in the homeland!

Pygmalion

That's no moon! It's a space station!

TheZohanS

Overflow wrote: »

Yeah post a pic for us who are not back in the homeland!

Yeah these foreign moons are a bit crap...you can't beat a good Irish moon.

Cheerilee

Where are you?? Ive just gone outside to look and all I can see are fecky clouds.. no moon at all let alone an orange one!

praiseach

arra feck it the bloody thing has gone behind the clouds i can honestly say it freaked the **** outta me

IvySlayer

I stepped out the back to look for it. I was in my socks and I stepped on a massive snail. Goo all over my socks.

Thank you very much :mad:

I didn't see it btw, pic.

My name is URL

It's the atmosphere scattering the light that makes it orange, and it only looks big because it appears closer to the horizon

Overflow

TheZohan wrote: »

Yeah these foreign moons are a bit crap...you can't beat a good Irish moon.

Can you imagine that the sky could be overcast where i am, imagine that, the weather could be different outside of ireland!

ironictoaster

I had a look outside there, the moon is indeed very orangey tonight.

sweet-rasmus

It's the atmosphere scattering the light that makes it orange, and it only looks big because it appears closer to the horizon

^^^ exactly

Kiera

For some reason i have this ad in my head now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi49wGwnagw

/TOTAL ECLIPSE

praiseach

im in connemara :rolleyes:

bleg

Orange?

That's the sun my friend.

Nuggles

I'm in conamara, I see no moon either.

I'd say he's looking at it through a quality street sweet wrapper, giving the moon an orange colour.

WIZE

it looks orange alright

Kiera

Nuggles wrote: »

I'm in conamara, I see no moon either.

I'd say he's looking at it through a quality street sweet wrapping, given the moon and orange colour.

Oh must be just Dublin then

IvySlayer

BVB wrote: »

it looks orange alright

Now you're just being an arse hole

An Fear Aniar

It's called a Harvest Moon.

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praiseach

Nuggles wrote: »

I'm in conamara, I see no moon either.

I'd say he's looking at it through a quality street sweet wrapper, giving the moon an orange colour.

im actually a she

Nuggles

Kiera wrote: »

Oh must be just Dublin then

That makes no sense, you know that right?

I see no moon, praiseach's captors must have painted an orange blob on the blacked out window to please him.

wudangclan

Kiera wrote: »

Oh must be just Dublin then

typical 'after hours'

praiseach

whats the harvest moon when its at home then??

Nuggles

I think it's a moon around harvest time.

Guessing.

Kiera

Nuggles wrote: »

That makes no sense, you know that right?

Yup

wudangclan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_moon

praiseach

god nuggles you dont half love your own wit.

Nuggles

That's right, I don't half love it.

I love it fully.

billy the squid

Polution...

During the eighties in Dublin you would get a blood red moon for several nights in a row.

My name is URL

http://static.howstuffworks.com/flash/question491-moon.swf

Move the little guy around

That's why it looks bigger when it appears low

wudangclan

billy the squid wrote: »

During the eighties in Dublin you would get a blood red nose for several nights in a row.

fyp

An Fear Aniar

My name is URL wrote: »

http://static.howstuffworks.com/flash/question491-moon.swf

What is the little man doing there?

.

wudangclan

My name is URL wrote: »

http://static.howstuffworks.com/flash/question491-moon.swf

it doesn't explain how that guy levitates

My name is URL

wudangclan wrote: »

it doesn't explain how that guy levitates

If you place the guys side by side it looks like that scene from The Shining

wudangclan

My name is URL wrote: »

If you place the guys side by side it looks like that scene from The Shining

if you put one standing on the others shoulders it looks like a scene from 'once upon a time in the west'

wudangclan

and if you move the little guy off-screen it looks like a scene from 'last man standing'

Scrambled egg

My name is URL wrote: »

http://static.howstuffworks.com/flash/question491-moon.swf

Move the little guy around

That's why it looks bigger when it appears low

Why can't I move the big guy?

Jeebus

OP confused a light with the moon.

Happens to the best of us.

ynotdu

I have seen an orange moon,it only happens once in a blue moon though!

robbie_998

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

It's called a Harvest Moon.

.

only farmers can see it.

IvySlayer wrote: »

I stepped out the back to look for it. I was in my socks and I stepped on a massive snail. Goo all over my socks.

Thank you very much :mad:

I didn't see it btw, pic.

it was all an evil plan to kill the snail and piss you off..... MMWWHAAhahahaha

dylano_k

Ya sure you weren't just looking at an actual orange up really close?

JerryHandbag

Its the Death Star....armageddon is finally upon us. Goodnight all and god bless..:(:(