What is Earthshine?
Earthshine is one of those subtle phenomena that many people have seen without ever realising what they were looking at. On certain evenings, a thin…
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The Supermoon and Tides
Tides are at the greatest range near a full or new moon and these are called ‘spring tides’. This is when the sun and moon’s…
Moon Phase Navigation
I’m going to be brave and briefly discuss one of the trickier natural navigation techniques: the moon phase method or moon phase compass. If you…