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Re: (meteorobs) RE: SW Florida eclipse and meteors
The 1975 Lunar eclipse was my first one. I very much remember that it was not quite as bright as this one. Also, it was more intensely red, whereas this one leaned very much towards the copper-orange (some of my students even saw it as rust-colored).
In Astronomical Affinity - Felix
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From: Skywayinc@aol.com
Reply-To: meteorobs@jovian.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 13:23:16 EST
>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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