"Braking Action: Nil"

Angelo Campanella wrote in
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Bob Noel wrote:
A moonrise over the ocean is real pretty.

It's hard these days to know when there is a full moon... One
mnemonic
is that in the days preceeding Easter (e.g. after Palm Sunday), the
moon is full, since that is how it is defined by the Church. Someone
else here might know the exact defininition.


It's when it's fully illuminated, of course!

When the earth, sun and moon are aligned with the moon on the opposite side
of the earth to the sun. Depends on defintion, so technical, it;s only
momentary, but for pratical purposes it lasts several days.
The occur roughly every 29 and a half days, so find a recent one on your
calender and calculate from there.

The church has **** all to do with defining a full moon. Easter is the
first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox,(Northern
hemisphere of course before some asshole lawyer stats in) but that won't
tell you when the full moon occured.The church ignores actaul astronomical
data and are working off a supposed full moon based on calculations done
centuries ago.
Close enough to look at it, but you wouldn't want to try and navigate off
it using what the church says.
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Bertie