Rabbit In The Moon
Published by simon on April 17, 2008We were having a cup of coffee at Leo’s some weeks back, Boone and me, talking about cameras and websites and raptor watching at Tg. Tuan.
Somehow we veered to talking about taking awesome pics of the full moon, and he mentioned something about seeing the ‘rabbit in the moon’. What rabbit? Boone was surprised i’ve never heard of it. If you look at the glowing full moon, you can roughly see an image of a rabbit in the moon. He says when he was a kid his mother told him about, and most his friends also knew this.
Well, I didn’t. I’ve heard about the ‘man in the moon’ described by my Science teacher (it looks like a smiling face), but no rabbit.
Since due to pollution, we can hardly see the moon clearly anymore, Boone sent me a pic of the full moon he took.
Couldn’t really see it clearly, so he sent another clearer, whiter shot…
Anyway if you can’t visualize it, here’s some help…
I did some googling, and found this great article in wikipedia, about the Jade rabbit being a companion of the moon goddess Chang’E, and was mentioned in Buddhist stories… growing up in a Christian household, no wonder I never got to hear about this!
Anyway, Boon also sent me another picture of the moon, taken on the same night (12 hours later lah, i suppose), by a professional photographer somewhere in Texas…
Beautiful, ain’t it? Reminds me of the opening scene in the old movie ‘Clash of the Titans’… remember that one?!
I don’t see the rabbit. And the one that you helped with looks like a T-Rex or something!
Maybe the rabbit in the moon has evolved.
takes a bit of imagination, i suppose…
Wow, super big Rabbit, nearly as big as the moon itself!
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