TORRANCE TRIBUNE September 20, 2012 Page 11 Looking Up Shine On Harvest Moon! By Bob Eklund with only its right half-lit, looking like a “D” Finally, a bit of lunar (or it is loony?) the big bands, there’s “Moonlight Cocktails” Songs are written about it, lovers sing in the southern sky. trivia: How many moon-related songs can and Moonlight Serenade.” And finally, who of it, but when’s the last time you actually If you feel like a Saturday night outing to you think of? could forget Audrey Hepburn singing “Moon looked at a harvest moon? First, what is a a local observing event on the 22nd, here are Let’s start with the classics: Beethoven’s River” in Breakfast at Tiffany’s? “harvest moon”? It’s defined as “the full moon some local possibilities: “Moonlight Sonata” and Debussy’s “Clair de And here’s a final idea: Why not invite nearest to the September equinox” (the first Pacific Astronomy & Telescope Show Lune.” Then fast-forward to jazz age and swing friends in for a backyard moonlight barbecue, day of autumn, which this year is Saturday, (PATS) at the Pasadena Convention Center era standards like “Shine on Harvest Moon,” with or without telescope, on either September September 22). For everyone, the harvest moon September 22 and 23: “Carolina Moon,” and “Moon Over Miami.” 22 or 29? A background of some of the is conspicuous. For farmers in years past, http://www.rtmcastronomyexpo.org/pats/ Remember “Moonlight Becomes You” from one above songs to accompany your “moonlight it was vital. At the climax of harvest, they index.php/ of those 1940s Road to… movies with Dorothy cocktails” would be nice—and that Old Devil could work late into the night by this autumn Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers (Friday Lamour, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby? From Moon overhead is sure to be good company. moon’s light. It rises due east about the time in Pasadena Old Town, Saturday in Monrovia the sun is setting due west (6 p.m.), the sun Library park: www.otastro.org/ and moon both being roughly on the equator Griffith Observatory, free public star party at this season. And for a few days, instead 2 to 9:45 p.m. September 22: of rising its average of 50 minutes later each http://www.griffithobs.org/pcalendar.html day, it rises at nearly the same time for several For a directory with links to many L.A. days. 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