The full moon for the month of December is at its fullest at 7:48 AM on Sunday, the 3rd
...and the sun sets at 4:41 PM and the moon rises at 5:15 PM.
This is just about the best night to view the moon at its fullest after it rises today! Come join us for a meet-n-greet in the evening and to watch the full moon rise over the San Gabriel and San Bernardino mountains.
The event begins at 6:00 pm and the event will officially end by 8:30 PM, but there may be some lingering about into the night...
Please do bring your bugs and coins for trading, discovering, or just to show them off. Tonight's Full Moon Rising event will be at one of our traditional alternative sites, the Round Table Pizza in Claremont @ 598 E. Baseline Rd & Mills Ave.
It is interesting to note that often, calendars indicating moon phases may be off by a day when intended for use in a different time zone. Don't be late or you just might miss out on this magical time as the sun sets and the full moon rises.
Again, the event will be held at Round Table Pizza in Claremont @ 598 E. Baseline Rd. & Mills Ave., 91711.
Tonight's event will be a White Elephant Gift Exchange. Everyone who wishes to participate should bring a wrapped gift to place in the gift pile. New gifts should be in the $5 to $10 range (no higher please) or you may re-gift something you already have. The basic rules may be found at the 'related web page' link at the top of the description. We will abide by the three swaps and you and/or the gift is out rules.
Today is...
- Advocate's Day (India)
- Doctors' Day (Cuba)
- United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities
On this day...
- 1904 – The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
- 1973 – Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
- 1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
- 2005 – XCOR Aerospace makes the first manned rocket aircraft delivery of U.S. Mail in Kern County, California.
- 2014 – The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches the space explorer Hayabusa 2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round trip mission to an asteroid to collect rock samples.
Notable births...
- 1826 – George B. McClellan, American general and politician, 24th Governor of New Jersey (d. 1885)
- 1901 – Mildred Wiley, American high jumper (d. 2000)
- 1948 – Ozzy Osbourne, English singer-songwriter
- 1965 – Katarina Witt, German figure skater and actress
Notable deaths...
- 1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816)
- 1894 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (b. 1850)
- 1981 – Walter Knott, American farmer, founded Knott's Berry Farm (b. 1889)
For future planning purposes:
Full Moon Dates for 2018
January 1 at 6:25 PM
January 31 at 5:27 AM
March 1 at 4:52 PM
March 31 at 5:37 AM
April 29 at 5:59 PM
May 29 at 7:20 AM
June 27 at 9:54 PM
July 27 at 1:22 PM
August 26 at 4:58 AM
September 24 at 7:54 PM
October 24 at 9:47 AM
November 22 at 9:41 PM
December 22 at 9:50 AM
References:
1. almanac.com/moon
2. wikipedia Full Moon