Full Moon on the Playa !

Simon said · Post by **Simon said** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:36 pm

Good news. All early arrivals (8/29 Sunday) will have the benefit of a full moon.

theCryptofishist · Post by **theCryptofishist** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 1:35 pm

Even though they won't get in until 12:01 Monday morning. Without prior permission. Still, it gives them a good way to watch from afar and pick their arrival time, per Badger's suggestion.

Which see.

waltsnipe · Post by **waltsnipe** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:20 pm

Does that mean Sir Skip of Dakota has already scheduled himself to drop trough that night......(Ow! not in the face, not in the face!).

stuart · Post by **stuart** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:12 pm

full moon bad
full moon = light pollution

buckethead alien · Post by **buckethead alien** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:14 pm

stuart wrote:full moon bad
full moon = light pollution

I'm with you on that. I like my playa big and D A R K.

madmatt · Post by **madmatt** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:21 pm

buckethead alien wrote: I like my playa big and D A R K.

I agree in principal, but in 2001, my first burn, I was out alone Sunday nite after my brother (who took me out there) had gone home, and I remember being out in the middle of the playa under the full moon. It was so bright, it was like being in a lighted swimming pool at night. Awesome.

bdongray · Post by **bdongray** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 3:28 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Even though they won't get in until 12:01 Monday morning. Without prior permission. Still, it gives them a good way to watch from afar and pick their arrival time, per Badger's suggestion.

More accurately the full moon is at 19:23PDT, but the moon is below the horizon at BLC at that time. By midnight, the full moon will have risen, and be something like a spot lamp, and although it will be just a few hours off full, you won't be able to tell the difference - even one of two nights afterwards.

I do prefer my playa moonlight free.

diane o'thirst · Post by **diane o'thirst** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:21 pm

Listen for the

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLL

theBrooke · Post by **theBrooke** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:50 pm

I thought the full moon was monday night

Lydia Love · Post by **Lydia Love** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:58 pm

i'm quite pleased about the full moon.

my first year the moon was bright enough that we had a shadow at night.

everything was bathed in silver light

and you could see the unlit, bad idea art waiting to kill bicycle riders (oh, look... an unlit chickenwire lunchbox filled with rocks!)

JezebelinHell · Post by **JezebelinHell** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:37 am

If I didn't think it would offend the artists, I'd make an art project out of wrapping all those installations in thick foam. I've just learned to watch where the hell I'm going though...

Captain Goddammit · Post by **Captain Goddammit** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:56 pm

Lydia Love wrote:and you could see the unlit, bad idea art waiting to kill bicycle riders (oh, look... an unlit chickenwire lunchbox filled with rocks!)

You mean waiting to Darwinize nighttime bikers with no light on their bikes!
If you ride when you can't see and just expect a clear path, you may have an educational experience.

I hate full moons on the playa too... give me a nice dark night.

Full Moon on the Playa !

Full Moon on the Playa !

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