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Darkest night
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2010 Dec 23, 10:06 -0600
From: Michael Dorl
Date: 2010 Dec 23, 10:06 -0600
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?