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From: Paul Dolkas
Date: 2015 Sep 27, 21:47 -0700
Actually, from the left coast, it was a little different. We only got the partial version, but I think because of that, it was a little more spectacular.
So imagine a bright full moon, albeit with a big semi-circle of it only barely illuminated, yet still very much there. Enough to make it look like a 3-dimensional globe when viewed through binoculars, rather than just a flat disk.
No red color from here either, but I thought it was kinda nice, anyway.
-Paul
Paul Dolkas
From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Rommel John Miller
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2015 8:57 PM
To: paul@dolkas.net
Subject: [NavList] Was it a "super moon" or just the same old moon?
Okay, we are just emerging from totality at 10:23 pm local Hebron, MD time.
No blood red moon, nothing but the same old silver colored disk that when it is full is termed “moon bright.”
What all the fuss over these myths of super moons is about when any physicist in the field of Astronomy could tell you, it just isn’t true.
But I guess some ship board sailors and navigators out there still put faith in St. Elmo and his strange “fire.”
Oh well, I always thought science would dispel myth, not perpetuate them.
But Barnum was right, one is born every minute.
Rommel John Miller
8679 Island Pointe Drive
Hebron, MD 21830-1093
410-219-2690 (Land and Home)
443-365-7925 (Cell)
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