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Re: Longitude by Sunset
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 6, 11:46 -0700
From: Gary LaPook
Date: 2012 May 6, 11:46 -0700
I was ferrying a Cessna 172 across the
Atlantic, I was in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night,
it was dark. Suddenly I saw an orange light that got brighter and
brighter. "What the..?" After a while I realized that it was the moon
rising and it was bright orange due to atmospheric effects. From my altitude the horizon was more than 130 NM away so it is always indistinct so I doubt that I first saw the moon just as it cleared the actual horizon. gl --- On Sun, 5/6/12, Marcel Tschudin <marcel.e.tschudin@gmail.com> wrote:
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