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Low winter sun brings a high full moon

By Alan M. MacRobert

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 07, 2012

The moon, big and bright, shines nearly full tonight and fully full tomorrow night. It clears the eastern horizon around sunset, looms upward during twilight as the sun sinks deeper below the world’s western rim, and shines ever higher as evening advances. If you know why the full moon behaves this way, you know more practical astronomy than many do, and perhaps even as much as your great-grandparents did.

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