Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Bay Area Lug/Leg impromptu yosemite trip:MOON
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:10:40 -0700

Umm, If you read carefully I did mention the fact that for photographers the
moon appears at its perigee quite often. It is rare for it to occur during
winter solstice and... well the rest is in the previous post.

John Collier

> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:00:20 -0500
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Bay Area Lug/Leg impromptu yosemite trip:MOON
> 
> At 06:31 PM 12/17/1999 -0700, John Collier wrote:
>> All this was cheerfully plagiarized from the December issue of Discover.
> 
> Great.  Good for Discover, whoever they may be.  Why not check with some
> reputable scientific organizations, such as the Royal Astronomical Society
> of Canada?  They will explain that this identical phenomena happens several
> times a year.  In fact, since you seem to be in California, why not check
> with Lick?
> 
> They will give you the straight skinny.  Sorry to burst your bubble!
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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