It's today and a small explanation is available at the link below, although it has to do with 2006 and not specifically this year.
The moon is full over here and a dark orange. The orange may be air pollution, I don't know but it is a pretty sight.
Pattaya was packed today with Bangkonians fleeing for the 3 day holiday. Also, the internet is jammed today and probably will be Sunday and Monday with kids playing on-line games as no school and full holiday on Monday.
Yes, Winkie....LOL. I've just been accused by my better half of either sniffing or smoking the little packages of oregano that come with Pizza Company deliveries.
Apparently when I removed January from the Thai wall calendar, I also tore off February, therefore I was looking at March. Pattaya is indeed wall to wall traffic today which strengthened my illusions.
Sorry for the confusion but it is a good story, just save it and view next month. Pete
Wouldn't worry about it Pete. I swear I read somewhere that Chinese New Year was 28th & 29th January. So, when I saw a big festival at Wat Etisukato on 28th, put 2 and 2 together... I was really surprised when Mum in HK didn't mention it, so I asked how she was occupying herself over the holiday. I took some convincing that it wasn't till the middle of this month. Funny how you get things into your head...
"The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher, 1748-1832
Thanks for that pete i deliberately went to my mates house and asked him if it was me cos i thought the moon was orange last night ill give him some earache today he said it was normal
prcscct wrote:
The moon is full over here and a dark orange. The orange may be air pollution, I don't know but it is a pretty sight.
The moon normally reflect the light of the sun, if the moon is close to the Eath shadow, some of this light goes trough the Earths Statosphere. This can at times be polluted by dust - e.i. after the outbreak of Mt. Helena and Mt. Pinatubo some years ago, or desertstorms in Africa, and then the moon seems to glow in shades of dark orange, a lighter orange is due to same reson, the moon just out of of Earth shadow, and then only get filtered once.
Pete 
