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Monday, May 10, 2010

The true time of a full moon...

Florida Full Moon

Today we learn a little bit about the "Full Moon"

A full moon is often thought of as an event of a full night's duration. This is somewhat misleading, as the Moon seen from Earth is continuously becoming larger or smaller (though much too slowly to notice with the naked eye). Its absolute maximum size occurs at the moment expansion has stopped, and when graphed, its tangent slope is zero. For any given location, about half of these absolute maximum full moons will be potentially visible, as the other half occur during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon. Many almanacs list full moons not just by date, but by their exact time as well, usually in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)). Typical monthly calendars that include phases of the moon may be off by one day if intended for use in a different time zone.
The date and approximate time of a specific full moon (assuming a circular orbit) can be calculated from the following equation:

$d = 20.362955 + 29.530588861 \times N + <br />102.026 \times 10^{-12} \times N^2$

where d is the number of days since 1 January 2000 00:00:00 in the Terrestrial Time scale used in astronomical ephemerides; for Universal Time (UT) add the following approximate correction to d:

$-0.000739 - (235 \times 10^{-12})\times N^2$ days

where N is the number of full moons since the first full moon of 2000. The true time of a full moon may differ from this approximation by up to about 14.5 hours as a result of the non-circularity of the moon's orbit.
The age and apparent size of the full moon vary in a cycle of just under 14 synodic months, which has been referred to as a full moon cycle.

Hi my friends,

I've never thought that math can be that complicated!

I hope you got it.... I don't....*smile*.... The world of Photography is still closer to me than all those mathematical codes and formulas in Astronomy :)

Thanks for all your kind compliments yesterday. I hope all your mothers out there had a fantastic day and you got all spoiled like crazy. I'm still waiting for the phone calls from my kids.... but that's another story!

I've captured this full moon recently and gave him some color too... That's the artist freedom to do what you like with your work, right? Just be creative!

Have a wonderful day!

Susanne

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Sunday, May 9, 2010

Are YOU a Mother?

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

~T. DeWitt Talmage~

Saturday, May 8, 2010

It is mysterious...

Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

~Thomas Carlyle~

Hi my friends,

thank you for all your overwhelming comments from yesterday. I loved to read every single one. For those who still don't know it, I'm giving you the answer to your comment always right there, right after yours. If you come back again after a while, you can read it there.

It's weekend already and a very nice one. We have very nice 89F here - that's 32 C! - it's almost to warm for me to go outside. I like the warm temps but not that hot and it's not even summer now! It was to cold just some months ago and now she complains about being to hot already, right?...LOL... And somewhere up in the North they still have snow coming down, that's almost unbelievable for me, snow in May.... - o.k..... I don't complain anymore :))

Have a wonderful weekend and tomorrow there will be

my "Wordless Sunday" photo online, o.k.? Stay tuned....

Susanne

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Friday, May 7, 2010

What is Love?

What is love?

It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis

Hi my friends,

this week went by fast - for me. It's Friday already and weekend just around the corner. I wish you all a wonderful weekend, enjoy spring!

See you tomorrow....and, yes...thank you for the comments from yesterday!

Susanne

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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Stormy clouds over the beach

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
~ Robert H. Schuller ~

Hi my friends,
thanks for all your nice comments,

with your words you make my day - every day!

We went yesterday down to the beach and this is what we get to see: a storm approaching with dark hanging clouds over the beach. The last people there finally packed down their tent, getting ready to leave. Some minutes later big rain drops were falling on our heads. I love scenes like that!
Have a wonderful day!
Susanne

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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

ZEN Photography III

Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism, translated from the Chinese word 禅 Chán to Japanese. This word is in turn derived from the Sanskrit dhyāna, which means "meditation"

Zen emphasizes experiential prajñā, particularly as realized in the form of meditation, in the attainment of enlightenment. As such, it de-emphasizes theoretical knowledge in favor of direct, experiential realization through meditation and dharma practice.

The establishment of Zen is traditionally credited to be in China, the Shaolin Temple, by the South Indian Pallava prince-turned-monk Bodhidharma, who came to China to teach a "special transmission outside scriptures" which "did not stand upon words".

The emergence of Zen as a distinct school of Buddhism was first documented in China in the 7th century AD. It is thought to have developed as an amalgam of various currents in Mahāyāna Buddhist thought—among them the Yogācāra and Mādhyamaka philosophies and the Prajñāpāramitā literature—and of local traditions in China, particularly Taoism and Huáyán Buddhism.

From China Zen subsequently spread south to Vietnam, and east to Korea and Japan.

Hi my friends,

thanks for all the wonderful comments from yesterday. Today we'll learn a little bit about "What is ZEN". The text is from Wikipedia - not from me :))

See you again visiting tomorrow too? Where? Here....see you (t)here!

Susanne

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