Moon+Watch+(PERL+Method)

 In the moon watch activity we had to do every night, I chose the 1st night of the moon observation and the 6th night of the moon observations to make a comparison of. As I compare these two different observations, I observed that both of these had used our sense of sight in observing how the moon looks like most of the time. In these moon observations, I learned that by perceiving things with the use of your five senses, I would get to know more detail about the things like the moon. And if you repeatedly do the same process or method just as what I did in my “Moon Watch”, you would get to learn more all about the moon and you will notice changes that will occur overtime as based on the two comparisons made on the two moon observations I’ve done. Also, I can compare my moon observations to how the Muslim calendar, the native “Miksan” calendar of the Philippines, and the view of the early civilizations of the moon as a deity or a god, has been changed into more detailed and complex ideas given for these ideologies as years pass by.

1st Night of Moon Observation

DAY and DATE: Wednesday, November 18

TIME: 5:56 p.m.

POSITION / PLACE: Island Street across the Football Field

CONDITIONS: · Temperature: Fair temperature · Air: Small breezes from the South · Light: Very luminous overhead, Can see Mars and Jupiter with the naked eye but the Moon can’t be seen very long due to clouds passing in front of it

MOON OBSERVATIONS / REFLECTIONS · Shape: Waxing · Color: Pale White · Size: Not so much elongated and very thin
 * Position: North (Overhead)

2nd Night of Moon Observation

DAY and DATE: Thursday, November 19

TIME: 6:08 p.m.

POSITION / PLACE: Island Street across the Football Field

CONDITIONS: · Temperature: Fair temperature · Air: Small breeze from the East · Light: Moon is very visible today, Porch lights and streetlights have just been turned on

MOON OBSERVATIONS / REFLECTIONS · Shape: Waxing · Color: Bright White · Size: Elongated but very thin
 * Position: Northwest

3rd Night of Moon Observation

DAY and DATE: Friday, November 20

TIME: 6:28 p.m.

POSITION / PLACE: Football Field

CONDITIONS: · Temperature: Fair temperature · Air: Small breeze from the Southeast · Light: Moon is not much visible today, Lighting of the Family Day Weekend makes looking the moon a bit harder

MOON OBSERVATIONS / REFLECTIONS · Shape: Crescent · Color: Pale White · Size: Elongated an a bit thin
 * Position: Northwest

Perception  In the moon watch activity we had to do every night, I chose the 1st night of the moon observation and the 6th night of the moon observations to make a comparison of. As I compare these two different observations, I observed that both of these had used our sense of sight in observing how the moon looks like most of the time. In these moon observations, I learned that by perceiving things with the use of your five senses, I would get to know more detail about the things like the moon. And if you repeatedly do the same process or method just as what I did in my “Moon Watch”, you would get to learn more all about the moon and you will notice changes that will occur overtime as based on the two comparisons made on the two moon observations I’ve done. Also, I can compare my moon observations to how the Muslim calendar, the native “Miksan” calendar of the Philippines, and the view of the early civilizations of the moon as a deity or a god, has been changed into more detailed and complex ideas given for these ideologies as years pass by. Emotion The moon as I have observed during the first night of 2the “Moon Watch” activity had a sudden impact on me not just as a chunk of rock out there in the skies but it had suddenly brought to me certain memories and most of them are related to incidents in my past that have changed my being of who I am now. The incident that has that much effect on me that I remembered as I was looking at the moon was during the time my great grandfather died at our ancestral home in the province. I will never forget the scenery of the night skies during that time. I was sitting in a chair right beside my great grandfather while he was lying down barely breathing but he kept a tight grip in my hand. And as the clouds moved away in front of the moon, my great grandfather looked up to the skies just as what he was doing every night before he became very ill. And with a deep sigh, he held his final breath and left the world for good. He was 103 years old and as his grip became loose, I started to uncontrollably cry not just for minutes but I cried for 2 hours and even my parents and my sister couldn’t accept such loss. And ever since I looked at the moon, I always remember that night in my life and how my great grandfather had looked up in the skies as his last act. I will never get to know the real reason why he looked up above the moon and the stars. Maybe it was meant that the reason would live and die with him. And what had happened to history, it was such a worthy story to compare to how the Maykins of the Philippines have worshipped the moon through emotional aspects. It was during the early 720’s when a great epidemic spread throughout that time and during those times, the people have thought that it was the moon which had caused all of the sickness in their communities are having so they have started worshipping the moon as a neutrality of the moon god to not hurt the people. And ever since then, it has become a tradition until the fall of the Philippines to Spanish domain in 1519. 