[Chaos-l] Fwd: Total lunar eclipse session?

Jayme Hanzak jhanzak at unctv.org
Tue Aug 28 11:24:43 EDT 2007


mot36 at earthlink.net on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:05 AM -0500 wrote:
>I just watched as much of the eclipse as I could.  I got up at five and
>found a bite taken off the top of the moon.  At that time I guess the moon
>was at least 45 degrees above the SW horizon.   At 5:45 aproximately the
>last, bottom, sliver disappeared but I couldn't see the disk, supposedly
>reddish, because of the morning fog.  I never found the moon again.  I
>imagine it came back on (it always did in the past), but by then the sky
>was getting light again, and the moon was very low.   I saw an airplane
>flying over Chapel Hill and I thought, They must have a good view up
>there.
>Margareta

I started looking at the same time Margareta. As long as there was a
sliver of the moon visible with sun light, I knew where the moon was . As
soon as the moon slipped into full eclipse, I lost it in the fog as well.
Did anyone have a fogless horizon?



Jayme



More information about the Chaos-l mailing list