The Beauty of the Moon

[AlfredJPruffock]

Last night I observed the Moon with a Telescope - do you ever look at the Moon and then admire its beauty ?

Maybe you are too caught up with your wee thoughts and perhaps you are too busy to appreciate it - yet- the Moon is beautiful.



This lunar beauty
Has no history
Is complete and early,
If beauty later
Bear any feature
It had a lover
And is another.

This like a dream
Keeps other time
And daytime is
The loss of this,
For time is inches
And the heart's changes
Where ghost has haunted
Lost and wanted.

But this was never
A ghost's endeavor
Nor finished this,
Was ghost at ease,
And till it pass
Love shall not near
The sweetness here
Nor sorrow take
His endless look.



WH Auden

[Churchill]

You been on the spacedust again AJP?

[moorfield]

WH Auden

"That's no moon"
Alec Guinness

[FSM with Cheddar]

"That's no moon"
Alec Guinness

My dog thinks it is a hot air balloon, and tries to attack it.

[singhr]

Have you ever wondered why it seems to fit perfectly over the disc of the sun when it's an eclipse? It had to be exactly the right size and distance from earth for it to do that. Scientists say it's a coincendence but I have a hunch it's not. Some will say it's the hand of God but I don't buy that. Anyone got any alternative suggestions?

[FSM with Cheddar]

Last night I observed the Moon with a Telescope - do you ever look at the Moon and then admire its beauty ?

What telescope do you have?

Do you have any moon filters for it? I was considering buying some, cos it's a little too bright.

[AlfredJPruffock]

You been on the spacedust again AJP?

Au contraire - in fact I find people who are under the influence of the above to be too self absorbed to notice anything other than their own shoddy little vain egos - let alone the Beauty of the Moon which trancends our timebound egos.

To find the Moon beautiful - with a very clear mind- is a very natural thing - dont you think so ?

[Bunk]

Have you seen the 87 megapixel image of the moon? Made from 288 separate images stuck together.

[Churchill]

Au contraire - in fact I find people who are under the influence of the above to be too self absorbed to notice anything other than their own shoddy little vain egos - let alone the Beauty of the Moon which trancends our timebound egos.

To find the Moon beautiful - with a very clear mind- is a very natural thing - dont you think so ?

Absolutely.

Btw, is there anything that humans have left up there that can be seen with a telescope?

[RichardCranium]

Have you ever wondered why it seems to fit perfectly over the disc of the sun when it's an eclipse?

Utter bollocks. No it does not.

FOAD, superstitious, ignorant, lie-spreading god-botherer.