[ATMoB-discuss] Tonight's Eclipse

[A. Joseph Ross]

On 31 Mar 2007 at 23:13, Steve Beckwith wrote:

> It's nice to hear someone saw the totality.   The color and darkness
> of the eclipse is a result of how much dust is in our atmosphere.  I
> recall a very deep orange-reddish eclipse that occurred after the 1991
> eruption of Mt. Pinatubo.  It put a lot "stuff" into the atmosphere. 
 
I thought volcanic ash in the atmosphere makes an eclipse very dark.

I was out this evening around 6 PM in Brookline, but I couldn't find 
the moon anywhere.  It was cloudy, and if the totally-eclipsed moon 
was visible at all, it may have been too low in the sky to see.  I 
certainly didn't have a low horizon anywhere.   And, since the moon 
was totally-eclipsed, I may not have seen it because I didn't know 
where to look.

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