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RE: (meteorobs) OT (2nd. Try): The November 8, 2003 Lunar Eclipse

It could also depend (if you are referring to the view through the 
telescope) on which type of scope you used. Some flip the image upside 
down, and some left and right as well

Wayne

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From: 	Skywayinc@aol.com[SMTP:Skywayinc@aol.com]
Sent: 	Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:49 AM
To: 	meteorobs@atmob.org
Subject: 	Re: (meteorobs) OT (2nd. Try): The November 8, 2003 Lunar Eclipse

In a message dated 11/14/03 1:42:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
unclefireballmtf@yahoo.com writes:

<< 1. I was under the allusion that the recent eclipse
 was a total one.  However, during "totality", I kept
 noticing that the bottom edge of the moon was
 brighter than all of the rest, particularly from the
 bottom left if I remember right.  It never seemed to
 have been completely eclipsed.  Is that possible or
 what was I seeing?

The Earth's umbral shadow is not uniformly dark.  The region around the rim 
of the shadow tends to be somewhat brighter than that region at or near the 
center of the shadow. Since this was a relatively short totality, with the 
Moon
skimming through the southernmost part of the umbra (the Moon's southern 
edge
was tucked inside the shadow by only about 50 miles), the lower rim tended 
to
appear noticeably brighter than the central and upper portions of the Moon. 
Another factor is atmospheric refraction which allowed sunlight to be more
readily bent or refracted into the shadow and then on to the Moon.

 2.  Sometime after 1:10 UT, I peered through the
 telescope (looking for the first signs of
 "emergence") at the bottom, bright region mentioned
 above and noted that the bottom "right" edge seemed to
 be brighter than the left.  What does one make of
 that?

Mid totality was at 1:19 UT.  Prior to that time, the lower right limb of 
the
Moon would appear brightest.  After 1:19 UT, it would be the lower left 
limb
would appear brightest.  The bright rim would appear to "pivot" along the
bottom edge of the Moon from right to left as the totally eclipsed Moon 
progressed
through the Earth's umbra.

-- joe rao


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