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u/pbmcc88 Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19
Gently shaking my phone, gently shaking the moon. Awww yeah.
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u/downvoteifiamright Dec 13 '19
Ya I had to zoom in to see if it was a gif. Almost nauseating though.
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u/Give_me_truth Dec 13 '19
This was the first thing I noticed lol. That shaking it made the moon appear 3d
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u/nueoritic-parents Dec 13 '19
Woah. To me, it looks like the moon is still but the stars move around it
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u/ParaspriteHugger Dec 13 '19
Can't see the geminids because the moon's too bright
Can't see the moon because the clouds so tight
Terrible conditions for astronomy, good night.
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u/Homegrownfunk Dec 13 '19
Poetry about This very moon. Why not try Again as haiku
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u/tapiringaround Dec 13 '19
the moonlit clouds hide
geminids and stars alike
to see I must dream4
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u/BramDuin Dec 13 '19
I always read haikus by singing them in my head using that melody from Jacksfilms lolol
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u/mrblakesteele Dec 13 '19
This is so cool. When’s the last full sun so I can make sure I don’t miss it?
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u/PM_meSECRET_RECIPES Dec 13 '19
Honestly, nobody knows! Science has been unable to make such complex determinations.
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u/scotlynhatt Dec 13 '19
I think the decade technically ends next year but it is a great shot. Last of the 2010s.
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u/thiosk Dec 13 '19
correct~ there was no year zero.
decade 1 = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (10 yrs)
best decade: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
this decade: 😀😀😀😀, 😃😃😃😃, 😄😄😄😄 😁😁😁😁 🤣🤣🤣🤣, 😨😨😨😨, 😬😬😬😬, 😟😟😟😟, 🥵🥵🥵🥵<---- you are here 🤢🤢🤢🤢
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Dec 13 '19
Excellent post, great deductive reasoning, clear, concise verbage; you really laid it all out in a way most people could easily understand. Gonna completely forget about this in a minute tho
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u/tapiringaround Dec 13 '19
Year Zero is an amazing NIN album and Trent Reznor deserves more goddamn recognition.
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u/FreeLook93 Dec 13 '19
This is all well and good, but you are not actually correct.
A decade is simply a measure of 10 years. It can start from any time. 10 years measure starting from June 19th 1876 is just as much a decade as any other span of 10 years. If you were to say "the 20th century" that would be the 20th century AD, so a measure of 100 years starting from January 1, 1901 and ending on December 31, 2000. If you were to say "the 1900s" that would be a century starting on January 1, 1900, and ending on December 31, 1999. These are two distinct things, different from each other, but both equally centuries. With decades, we do not talk about the 200th decade, no on says that, they say "the 1990s", which would be a decade starting on January 1, 1990, and ending on December 31, 1999.
So there being no year 0 doesn't actually change anything, since we don't measure decades the same way we do centuries.
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u/LittleLui Dec 13 '19
So every full moon is the "last full moon of the decade", right?
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u/Roar_Im_A_Nice_Bear Dec 13 '19
Yep. I had this conversation with my dad last week and we decided to check online. Here's the consensus we found on multiple sites:
the third millenium began in 2001, not 2000 (because there's no year zero, so the 1st millennium began in year 1)
same with centuries, the 21st century began in 2001
not the case with decades: decades were adopted later on, and begin in years ending in 0. So in a few days it will be a new decade.
Tl,dr: millenium goes from 1 to 1001, century goes from 1 to 101, decade goes from 0 to 10
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Dec 13 '19
“Year zero” isn’t really a thing. You could count the decade from 90-99 just as much as you can count it your way. Personally I think starting a decade from the whole number that represents it makes a lot more sense as far as how we refer to decades. The 20s start with 2020. The 90s started with 1990. Doesn’t that make a lot more sense?
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u/Daniel_A_Johnson Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19
This assertion is a pedantic to the point of not even being meaningfully true.
"A decade" is ten years. Literally any ten. "The decade" colloquially refers to, you know, the decades as we refer to them. The '80s, the '90s, etc.
I know we all had fun 20 years ago being smug about the actual end of the 20th century being 2001, and you're right that technically "the 202nd decade" doesn't end for another year, but since literally no one has ever referred to the time we're living in as the 202nd decade, you're arguing with a person who doesn't actually exist.
Edit- I've never gotten silver on a comment that was in the negative before.
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u/24824_64442 Dec 13 '19
Edit- I've never gotten silver on a comment that was in the negative before.
Look at fancy pants here with multiple silvers.
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u/Nixinova Dec 13 '19
This is wrong. We do not call this the "202nd decade", no, it's the "2010s". You don't say someone age 30 is in their 20s, no, that's stupid, so why would 2020 be part of the 2010s. Centuries and millenia are different as you usually say 21st century instead of 2000s, which are two different things.
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u/Rcmacc Dec 13 '19
Slight different with the age thing, there is a year 0 for people (the year before you turn 1) but otherwise yeah
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u/mudkripple Dec 13 '19
I think it's not a total consensus on whether "decades" start at 0 or 1. Milleniums most scholars agree start at 1, but since we culturally refer to decades like 70's and 80's as including their "year 0" I think the definition of decade is still up for debate.
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Dec 13 '19
Right? The fact that we can arbitrarily say we're in the 21st century shows that you can have your decades start whenever you want.
A millenium is a measurement of time, but "the 90's" isn't.
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Dec 13 '19
Is this a composite photo or a tracked exposure?
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u/Pjacob77 Dec 13 '19
Composite, moon is to bright to do this in a single photo
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u/TahuNova Dec 13 '19
I just got back from a walk. The moon definitely looks brighter tonight. I didn't realize this was the last full moon this year.
Great pic!
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u/Mansyn Dec 13 '19
If you don't mind an annoying question. I'm a noob astronomer who's looking for a good entry level telescope. Any recommendations? I know most scopes at the lower level don't do much beyond looking at the moon, but I was hoping for something that it's at least possible to see other things.
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u/TheLeavesAndTheGrass Dec 13 '19
I misread the title and thought there were going to be no more full moons for ten years
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u/Kuykendall25 Dec 13 '19
Does anyone else see a dragon in the dark parts of the moon? Not just this picture but always?
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u/Pjacob77 Dec 13 '19
That is correct. Most people typically refer to the decades as 70s, 80s, 90s, etc.... though
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Dec 13 '19
It fucks me more how many galaxies you see here. Great fucking picture!
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u/wafflepiezz Dec 13 '19
Now imagine the possibility that there might be extraterrestrials in these galaxies looking at their night skies too
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Dec 13 '19
If you want to calculate the chances of them looking at us, you will need to work with degrees and the size of the observable universe as well as the amount of galaxies, billions is an understatement. The chances come out as literally 0. This makes me so sad, angry and scared at the same time.
The universe is just mind-boggling big and even if there is life out there, it could take millions of years to even get there with lightspeed. If it's another galaxy, billions or even more years. Just imagine putting a human into a spacecraft and start counting the years.
One of my fears is that we find life, but to send a single signal we have to wait years in both directions, imagine waiting 100 years for an answer to your question. My even bigger is, that we find it, just millions of light years away.
Anf it gets even scarier, since the universe is expanding, each galaxy will end up in its small bubble from which it will be impossible to travel to another galaxy since the space in between expands faster than you could physically go. That means at one point everything is so far away that even if we wanted, no technology could get us there. And at another point our sky would slowly turn black.
This all is hypothetical since it's billions of years into the future, but it's scary how small humans are, we literally have no impact on the "world" .
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u/little_brown_bat Dec 13 '19
"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination." ~ Douglas Adams
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Dec 13 '19
Keep in mind that if you could travel at lightspeed the journey from the perspective of the traveller would be very quick due to the time dilation they would experience, same goes for visitors to our planet if someone somewhere created lightspeed travel
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u/BlasphemyAway Dec 13 '19
There aren’t any visible galaxies in this picture and as far as I can tell it’s not even a real picture of the night sky.
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u/Pjacob77 Dec 13 '19
The picture is very real just a combination of 2 photos for the effect. The star field is from a globular cluster photo I was taking
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u/mlaxgsp79 Dec 13 '19
This might be a stupid question, but are the bright spots stars or galaxies?
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u/LtChestnut Dec 13 '19
How did you not completely over expose the area around the moon when photographing the stars? Different region of the sky?
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u/iAmUnintelligible Dec 13 '19
You telling me I missed the last full moon of the fucking decade? Frick.
I love the moon, beautiful shot
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u/chicagoahu Dec 13 '19
The decade begins at year one, not zero, even if it's more intuitive to think 2020 as the beginning of the 2020's.
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u/bully1115 Dec 13 '19
Actually technically the decade ends January 1st, 2021 due to the fact 2020 is the tenth year.
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u/IamSexy-ish Dec 13 '19
2020 is the last year of this decade, but who is counting? Yay!
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u/green_text_stories Dec 13 '19
Zooming in and out of the stars in this photo make me feel like I’m activating warp drive.
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Dec 13 '19
If you're on your phone and you gently shake your phone, it looks like the stars and Moon are moving...
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u/FindYourDinosaur Dec 13 '19
Thank you so much for posting this. It pops so much but is incredible subtle at the same time. Like someone else said, it feels very 3D even though it is not. Awesome stuff
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u/isamura Dec 13 '19
I've never seen the "man on the moon", but with this image, I definitely see a T-Rex on the moon!
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u/wall_of_swine Dec 13 '19
This is very specific but I pulled this image up while I'm riding in a car and the vibrations moving my hand back and forth makes the moon look like it's wobbling around in front of the starfield
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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Dec 13 '19
So, there are going to be no full moons in 2020? Because, y'know, that's the last year of the decade (a period of 10 years). Or do you count from 0 instead of 1 (0 to 9, not 1 to 10)? So, that 2010 would be the first year of the decade and 2019 the last, yeah, then I guess that would make this the last full moon of this decade.
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u/Arthur_OfTheSeagulls Dec 13 '19
The full moon always shines in my window at night. Its a beautiful moon but im trying to fuckin sleep as well.
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u/jenbamin245 Dec 13 '19
Anybody else see the face from the Mummy starring Brendan Fraser at the top to the left? Is that the star man?
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u/Nahom3000 Dec 13 '19
I am such a dumb ass my first thought was “is something gunna happen to the moon”
I disappoint myself
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u/youjustwaitandsee Dec 13 '19
I'm sad even though the same moon is always going to be there but in a new decade.
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Dec 13 '19
Useless trivial: if you were in Eastern time zone (eastern USA), you saw the full moon on 12/12 at 12:12 AM. Lotta 12's.
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u/elevatedenzz Dec 13 '19
May be a dumb question, but how come on other shots like this there’s never any stars?
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u/KristnSchaalisahorse Dec 13 '19
Because the Moon is too bright. If you set the camera to take a long enough exposure to capture stars, the Moon would just be a white circle (overexposed).
The stars in this image are from a completely separate photo (of a different area of the sky at a different magnification).
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Dec 13 '19
Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to post this. We're deep into winter with heavy overcast here in Minneapolis, and I wasn't able to get a look with my own eyes. :)
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u/MndatoryOrdeal Dec 13 '19
This somehow gave me the impression that we wont ever see another full moon until 2029 lol
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u/Gravewarden92 Dec 13 '19
Here in California, we got...fog! But not just any ol moon-obscuring fog. We got super dense fog!
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u/Astraph Dec 13 '19
Ok, I am confused.
Don't we have one more year in the decade? Just like the 21st century started with 2001, not 2000... This decade is 2001-2020, or am I missing something?
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u/podrick_pleasure Dec 13 '19
Don't we still have another year in the decade since we start counting at 1?
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u/drillyapussy Dec 13 '19
Not many people know this but to see the illusion MUCH better, close one eye and very slightly tilt the screen in different angles
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u/LoremIpsum77 Dec 13 '19
My local news channel reported that this one was the one of the century doubt
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u/SalamandarShell Dec 13 '19
This is so ridiculously clear it somehow appears 3D.