Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
Armap, I thought it was already established that it would most likely be the Sun if anything, as the Moons light is ultimately just reflecting the
Sun's light. So shouldn't we be staring into the sun?
That is one of the possibilities, but as far as being established I have my doubts,
that I will explain bellow.
Also, if it was the conditions on Earth, would those conditions apply to all the members that said it looked abnormally bright,
considering the geographical spread?
It could apply if the same conditions happened on those different locations, but the fact that not all
people see it different, and that at least two of those are from the same place, Portugal, makes me think that there is something on Earth that is
making this difference in the way the Moon looks.
As I said in a previous post, it could also be that there is something on Earth that is making it look normal in Portugal, but then we should have two
mysteries to solve, what makes the Moon look different and why does it not look different in Portugal.
If the Moon looks normal in Portugal because it is normal, then we have only one mystery to solve, why does it look abnormally bright in some
places.
Joining the two cases above, we can see that both have a common mystery, what is affecting the way the Moon looks (making brighter in one case and
normal in the other), so I think that if we can find if there is something on Earth affecting the way the Moon looks we can pass to phase two, if the
affected area is Portugal and the result the dimming of the abnormally bright Moon, what is making it brighter.
PS: I also think that if this was a global event somebody else should have noticed it, there must be thousands of people looking at the Moon through
specialised equipment, some with light measuring equipment, that would notice it and would be able to measure it.
