[Chaos-l] Difference In Lunar Eclipse?

[Tony Rice]

Something else I noticed this time...

The lighter edge on the NE portion of the disc that stayed there until just
about the maximum eclipse, I'm assuming that was the result of the moon
passing through the Earth's shadow from the NE to the SW.

I've noticed that photos I've seen from this week's eclipse put this edge as
well as the shadows in various places.  I'm guessing this is the result of
various telescopes flipping the image horizontally and vertically.  Minor,
but important detail IMHO.

-Tony

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Allen Davis
<starstorm151 at embarqmail.com>wrote:

> I think it was darker this time Robert.  allen
>
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> I was pondering this while walking the dog this morning ...
>
> Was there any difference between the way the moon looked this time and
> during the lunar eclipses of 2007 and 2008?  I saw Neil DeGrasse Tyson on a
> couple of news shows saying he was interested in comparing the color ... to
> see if dust in the upper atmosphere from the volcanos in Iceland and
> Indonesia made any difference.
>
> I'll have to dig up the old pictures from 2008 and see if I can see any
> difference.   It might have been more "coppery" (more orange) this time ...
>
> Robert
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