actually ever go to sleep... then I slept until 5 PM the following day. This time however all I did was to wake up a little earlier so that I could make observations of the moon for the astronomy course I take. I woke up at 5:11 with sunrise occuring at 5:58 I thought I had a wide berth. Couple this with the map on the left showing cloud cover in the UK for 4:00 this morning (it's taken off the BBC website so it may not be there tomorrow) I live under the fantastically white layer in the south of ingland. Too much cloud. And despite sunrise being almost an hour away I still had a fuzzly twilight which I might either put down to light pollution or just the early sun reflecting off the underside of the clouds. Then of course when I looked up the Moon rise and moon set times in the realisation that the moon may already have set. In fact it rose at 9:24 PM last night and will set at 11:46 AM this noon. It's meridian passing was at 4: 17 AM which means it should have been above the horizon nearly directly north or directly south of where I was standing. Advice for next time: Bring a compass, check the weather beforehand.
Thursday, 21 August 2008
no sleep this morning!
This is really the second time this week that my body clock fell out of sync. The first time was a quite bad sleepover in which we didn't actually ever go to sleep... then I slept until 5 PM the following day. This time however all I did was to wake up a little earlier so that I could make observations of the moon for the astronomy course I take. I woke up at 5:11 with sunrise occuring at 5:58 I thought I had a wide berth. Couple this with the map on the left showing cloud cover in the UK for 4:00 this morning (it's taken off the BBC website so it may not be there tomorrow) I live under the fantastically white layer in the south of ingland. Too much cloud. And despite sunrise being almost an hour away I still had a fuzzly twilight which I might either put down to light pollution or just the early sun reflecting off the underside of the clouds. Then of course when I looked up the Moon rise and moon set times in the realisation that the moon may already have set. In fact it rose at 9:24 PM last night and will set at 11:46 AM this noon. It's meridian passing was at 4: 17 AM which means it should have been above the horizon nearly directly north or directly south of where I was standing. Advice for next time: Bring a compass, check the weather beforehand.
actually ever go to sleep... then I slept until 5 PM the following day. This time however all I did was to wake up a little earlier so that I could make observations of the moon for the astronomy course I take. I woke up at 5:11 with sunrise occuring at 5:58 I thought I had a wide berth. Couple this with the map on the left showing cloud cover in the UK for 4:00 this morning (it's taken off the BBC website so it may not be there tomorrow) I live under the fantastically white layer in the south of ingland. Too much cloud. And despite sunrise being almost an hour away I still had a fuzzly twilight which I might either put down to light pollution or just the early sun reflecting off the underside of the clouds. Then of course when I looked up the Moon rise and moon set times in the realisation that the moon may already have set. In fact it rose at 9:24 PM last night and will set at 11:46 AM this noon. It's meridian passing was at 4: 17 AM which means it should have been above the horizon nearly directly north or directly south of where I was standing. Advice for next time: Bring a compass, check the weather beforehand.
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