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    Re: Darkest night
    From: John Huth
    Date: 2010 Dec 23, 12:15 -0500
    I think it's more the remarkable coincidence of a full lunar eclipse with the winter solstice, which is quite rare.   The "darkest night" is hype, obviously.   If you want a dark night, northern Greenland is a good candidate.

    On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Michael Dorl <mdorl@wisc.edu> wrote:

    People keep telling me about the Solstice lunar eclipse and how it was the darkest night in years.  This  media publicity seems to have taken on a life of its own.  Off hand it would seem to me that any night with out a moon would be darker than that on 12/21 with a full moon and a total lunar eclipse.

    So is there anything to this darkest night business or is this just some media hype?






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