The BA's latest newsletter mentions the BA's debunking of the Harmonic Concordance next month. I notice that it has a lunar eclipse too.

The greatest part of the eclipse will be Nov. 9 1:18:23 UT, according to Mr. Eclipse, but the eclipse starts much earlier.

Years ago (about thirty?) I was hunting in Wyoming with my Dad and brothers and we'd started out early in the morning with the light of the full moon shining into the truck. As the day broke, the sky turned blue, but the moon stayed in the clear cold sky. Then, an eclipse started. Parts of the moon disappeared. It was like no other lunar eclipse I'd ever seen--usually, even in full eclipse, you can still make out the moon. But in the dawn, the shadowed parts disappeared. Plus, it was in November and the moon was setting thirty degrees north of due west. It was the most dramatic lunar eclipse I have ever seen. I doubt many people observed it since it was so early.

This time, it looks like the situation will be similar, but the moon will be rising in the early evening dusk for the western United States. A lot of people will see it. I'm looking forward to it.

I remember a lunar eclipse about ten years ago (?) in which the Moon also disappeared almost completely. The explanation I heard afterwards was that there had been some recent volcanic eruptions, so the Earth's atmosphere transmitted much less light than usual.

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I saw one like that - I can't remember how long ago either - when I got a brief glimpse of a black moon through cloud cover. It's the eeriest eclipse I've seen. But there haven't been any volcanic eruptions recently to affect this one have there? I'm just hoping the clouds clear this time.

Carolyn

I remember that eclipse. It was after the eruption of Mt Pinutoba in the Philippines, but I can't remember the year. The Moon disappeared completely from view - the only time I've ever seen it do that.

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Viewing from a sufficiently light-polluted spot will make the moon disappear! :P

This one can be seen, at least in part, from most of the earth's inhabited areas. Sorry, Japan and Australia. Better luck next time.

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Careful there, you'll get the BA in trouble.

I posted that and a couple of others last year just before an eclipse and the world didn't come to an end. It's from a government website so my taxes paid for it. There was no copyright notice to be found.

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Oh, here it is. It says I'm allowed to post it here, I think, if I attribute it to NASA, which I do, right now.

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Yeah, that's Fred Espenak's site, and I know him rather tangentially (we did a bunch of lunar eclipse news interviews back in '99). He won't mind extra publicity, I'm sure. Usually I frown on direct linking to outside images, but this time it's okay! 8)

Then you have nothing to worry about. I pirated the image and put it on my own website. I linked to it there.

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