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To: abuelita who wrote (23236)	2/15/2003 4:05:36 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104167

there's a slight fog this evening and it's giving the moon a hazy look - not real. more like a painting. it's quite remarkable. I'll say. I was out walking the dog and noticed sort of a hazy appearance. When I got out to the road I looked up again and could not believe what I was seeing. There was a ring of light hazyish clouds that formed a perfect circle around the moon. Not close to it. Sorta far around it. Not a ring like Saturn's. It was like the ring that you make in a game of marbles. Where you draw a large circle in the dirt. Now picture your large molly shooter marble sitting in the center of that circle. But the moon was bigger than that. Maybe the size of a ping pong ball in that circle. The stars looked like the pebbles you would see in the dirt. But is was much better than that. The clouds looked thin, light, and lazy. But some how they were sort of strung together as if they were a thin loose wreath. Almost uniform in thickness but the bottom of the circle appeared heavier. Lighter, steamier clouds towards the zenith or apex of the sky. The sky looked like a grayish blue. Sort of a slate color instead of black. The moon was partially clear. You could make out the darkened craters but with less sharpness. Sort of blurred or out of focus appearance. It was like nothing I had ever scene before. It almost reminded me of one of those Astronomy Pics-of-the Day. One where it looks like a large eye in space is watching me. Perhaps a black and white version of one of those nebulas. The Cat's Eye Nebula is a name I remember. But in this case it was shot in Black and White and I was looking at the negative. The pupil of the eye was small as if some one was shining a light in the eye. Okay, did you ever see that freakazoid rock star named Marilyn Manson? He wears a weird contact in one eye that makes it look pale with a tiny pupil. Well picture a close up of that eye and imagine you are looking at the negative that came with your roll of pictures. But then it didn't look like that either. I guess it's kind of hard to describe. Anyhow I made Wifey go out and take a look at it. She was equally amazed. -MoonMan