Full (ish) Moon and Clear Nights Conjunction

[John]

The next few nights we have some reasonable forecasts for clearish skies - the best that I've seen for quite a while. But the Moon is going to be 85% - 100% full and will dominate the night sky.

I love observing the Moon so it's not a dead loss by any means but it does seem to me that clear skies and a bright moon do seem to occur quite frequently.

Is my memory playing tricks on me or is there actually a reason (apart from sods law for the DSO fan) why these things seem to happen together

 

[Geoff Barnes]

13 minutes ago, John said:

it does seem to me that clear skies and a bright moon do seem to occur quite frequently.

I've been what you could call an amateur meteorologist since my teens @John and I too used to be amazed at how often ( in winter especially ) the full moon would coincide with clear frosty nights, where the frosty grass would sparkle in the moonlight.

I never did any research into the phenomena as such, but it did seem to be a very regular coincidence. Interesting.

[Stu]

33 minutes ago, John said:

The next few nights we have some reasonable forecasts for clearish skies - the best that I've seen for quite a while. But the Moon is going to be 85% - 100% full and will dominate the night sky.

I love observing the Moon so it's not a dead loss by any means but it does seem to me that clear skies and a bright moon do seem to occur quite frequently.

Is my memory playing tricks on me or is there actually a reason (apart from sods law for the DSO fan) why these things seem to happen together

 

Typically I'm in Brussels for most of the week, always the way!!

[Raph-in-the-sky]

Just now, Stu said:

Typically I'm in Brussels for most of the week, always the way!!

Hey! 

I'm in Brussels too ... well I live here!

I'll probably take my dob out on Thursday. If you wanna join, just let me know!