[Misc] Museum of the Moon. Brighton Festival Installation.

[Jack Straw]

On until tomorrow, a 7 meter diameter replica moon hanging over Queens Park pond. It doesn't do anything, it is just there. I went last night between 9.00 - 10.00 pm and you couldn't move near the pond due to thousands of other people. Apparently, it is on all night, so I would advise getting there 11.00 pm or after. Parking around there is impossible, (nothing unusual there!). Full image here, with a bit about it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128321708@N03/47828916222/in/photostream/

 

[Pickles]

On until tomorrow, a 7 meter diameter replica moon hanging over Queens Park pond. It doesn't do anything, it is just there. I went last night between 9.00 - 10.00 pm and you couldn't move near the pond due to thousands of other people. Apparently, it is on all night, so I would advise getting there 11.00 pm or after. Parking around there is impossible, (nothing unusual there!). Full image here, with a bit about it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/128321708@N03/47828916222/in/photostream/

Atmosphere good?

 

[Jack Straw]

Atmosphere good?

I thought it was quite down to earth?

 

[Pickles]

I thought it was quite down to earth?

Jack, I jest sir.

A few of my fellow astronomy club members went, and said it was a great few hours, with a bubbling atmosphere, and strangers talking together about our love and fascination of space.

 

[LowKarate]

He's so bright and milky white, shining down upon the ground.
He's the bright, milky white, shining down upon the ground.
Everybody look at the moon, everybody seein' the moon.
The moon is bright, He's milky white, everybody look at the moon.
Uh!

 

[Is it PotG?]

See the mountains kiss high heaven
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister-flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

For the Fringe installation, somebody's going to chuck a king size duvet over it and rename it Total Eclipse.

 

[Jack Straw]

Jack, I jest sir.

A few of my fellow astronomy club members went, and said it was a great few hours, with a bubbling atmosphere, and strangers talking together about our love and fascination of space.

Sorry Pickles, I thought I'd inadvertently started a thread where people made moon jokes! The park was packed and everyone was just taking in the ambiance that the moon created. There were a few people enjoying a can or two, and all-in-all, it was lovely and friendly. I think most people, like me, were waiting for something to happen, but it never did. Still worth a quick look at after dark.

 

[Pickles]

Sorry Pickles, I thought I'd inadvertently started a thread where people made moon jokes! The park was packed and everyone was just taking in the ambiance that the moon created. There were a few people enjoying a can or two, and all-in-all, it was lovely and friendly. I think most people, like me, were waiting for something to happen, but it never did. Still worth a quick look at after dark.

It's part of Brighton festival by an artist, as far as I'm aware.

Great idea, turn up with some food and ice cold beer, and relax.....

 

[World of Sport]

l went there last night, quite incredible, there must of been about 2-3000 people there. Don't we just love a free event!

 

[e77]

I saw it in Peterborough Cathedral last year with Tim Peake's space capsule.

 

[Juan Albion]

I love the moon, me. I could stare at it for hours.

 

[atomised]

Has this finished or is it continuing this evening

 

[Eeyore]

Has this finished or is it continuing this evening

It's been taken down according to some in FB.

 

[Eeyore]

One senses, with all the herbal aromas in Queen's Park last night, that some onlookers thought it was the real thing...

 

[vegster]

It's part of Brighton festival by an artist, as far as I'm aware.

Great idea, turn up with some food and ice cold beer, and relax.....

Ah , but what sort of beer ?

 

[Weststander]

We went to see it in daylight today, but still impressive.

As were the native Yellow Flag Iris’s in the pond, BHCC are really improving the pond.

 

[vegster]

l went there last night, quite incredible, there must of been about 2-3000 people there. Don't we just love a free event!

You should have seen the "Fire Gardens " thing in St Annes wells Gardens a few years back, Breathtaking, and that wasn't just the Paraffin fumes !

 

[Eeyore]

We went to see it in daylight today, but still impressive.

As were the native Yellow Flag Iris’s in the pond, BHCC are really improving the pond.

Friends of Queen's Park secured the funding for that project If I recall correctly.

 

[Weststander]

Atmosphere good?

You have a tendency to look at things in a vacuum.

(As does Sir James Dyson).