(SNES) Fw: Lunar Eclipse

["Les Coleman" <les11@cox.net>]

> Hi Everyone
>
> Last night I spent an enjoyable evening watching the lunar eclipse.  Conditions were
better
> than I had hoped but not perfect.  I viewed from a hillside quite near my home sheltered
> from lights.  I have the following remarks - I won't dignify them with the title of
> observations.
>
> (1) Initially, the eclipse seemed darker than normal.  To my eyes the initial color was
> slate gray.  However, by 11 there was a definite peach or coppery tone but still muted.
By
> midnight, the color was sort of a pearl-pink irredescence.  As the contrast dimmed, the
> lunar features reappeared quite clearly.
>
> (2) I noticed a meteor cross the Moon's face, along the line that connects the craters
> Hercules and Langrenus.
>
> (3) I noticed a momentary flicker at 10:34:20 about where Crater Billy is located.  This
> area was in darkness at the time.  It was so brief that I'm sure it was a trick of my
eye.
> It could easily have been a phosphene, one of those dark room flickers of light which you
> can see.  I'll be interested if anyone else reports it.
>
> (4) Near totality, the stars gained perhaps several magnitudes.  In my binoculars, I
could
> NOT make out HD138188 magnitude 7.6 near the limb, but HD137462 at 7.0, a bit farther
out,
> was easily seen.

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Post Script:

I sent this out two days ago but it never got posted. Dunno why. I'll try again.

The Observatory was closed down Friday due to heavy cloud cover. The bad weather front
didn't affect most of New England, but it soaked parts of Long Island and just sprinkled on
us.

As an aside, I am currently studying Russian. As most of you know my hearing isn't of the
best so I decided that I better practice the Russian for "I'm hard of hearing : Ya toogoy
na ooHAH" I better get it right because if I simply put the stress
on the last word's first syllable (Ya toogoy  na OOhah) the meaning changes slightly to "I
have a hardness in my fish soup."
No kidding!

Les
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