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> Explain.


1) It's a full Moon

2) There are gaps in the clouds

3) The air is relatively clean (the rain's knocked all the dust into the gutters)


There are two other possible reasons. The first, that the Moon's got nearer, doesn't count today. For today the folk on the Moon are celebrating Apogee Day, which they do whenever they stop moving away from the Earth. They're now about 30,000 miles further away Earth than they were a fortnight ago (30,000 miles per fortnight is about 90mph). Which means, on the whole, the Moon is a bit less bright than average, all else considered.


The second possible reason is that all the lights are dimmer. Recent reports of flickering lights in the area suggest a degree of Electrical Tampering, and it may be that we've had the voltage dropped in a last-ditch attempt to meet some carbon reduction target. I been suspicious of something of the sort recently, as my toaster's got annoyingly slow, though that might be as much to do with the bread being colder-than-average, what with the weather.


Incidentally, the shiny thing a little to the left of the Moon this evening was Jupiter, at probably the brightest we're likely to see it.

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