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Re: (meteorobs) RE: SW Florida eclipse and meteors
In a message dated 1/22/00 11:07:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
nmcleod@peganet.com writes:
<< Out of ten major lunars I have seen since 1956, just those with
the eclipse fully visible from here, I found this latest one to have been
the second-darkest of my life. The colors were the most muted ever --
exceedingly dull. No hint of brick red this time >>
I found Norm's comments to be most interesting, since I too have ten
totalities under my belt and from my own experience, this eclipse was
surprisingly bright. As noted in an earlier e-mail, my location was plagued
by mid-to-high level cloudiness during much of the eclipse and I felt as we
approached totality that the clouds would completely obliterate the Moon (or
very nearly so). But despite this, the Moon shone rather brightly . . . and
the coppery orange-red colors were (for me) the most pronounced since the
eclipse of November 1975 -- a quarter of a century ago!
Norm mentioned the eclipse of 1994, but there was none in that year.
There was a total lunar eclipse in November 1993 that I thought was of
moderate brightness but was almost completely devoid of any color (I had
later commented in my report to S&T that maybe we should have gotton Ted
Turner to colorize it!). There were two totals in 1996. I was completely
wiped-out by clouds of the April event, while the September eclipse was great
-- until thick clouds rolled in just before totality.
-- joe rao
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