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(30,481 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)of St.Lucia...can't see shite either...but going to sit out on the veranda anyway....I'm sure folks passing by, will call me an Obeah woman... talking to the moon...
malaise
(269,054 posts)You are so Caribbean
HipChick
(25,485 posts)too...going to sit out here and holler at the moon..
malaise
(269,054 posts)For the moon
mitch96
(13,912 posts)Is that any relation to Obeah-Juan Kenobi?
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Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)meadowlander
(4,397 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)It's called a selenelion and it's when you can see an eclipsed Moon on the western horizon and the rising Sun on the eastern horizon.
It sounds impossible - an eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth and Moon are in a straight line - meaning you couldn't see the Moon and the Sun at the same time.
However, the bending - or refraction - of the rays of light caused by our atmosphere by about half a degree makes it possible to see both.
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Learned a new word too - selenelion.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)That is the next full lunar eclipse that will grace the Western Hemisphere in its entirety.
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Hell, everything will be a hazy red.
The only upside to the fire: the smoke layer dropped the temperature from yesterdays triple digits to a comfortable mid-eighties today (maybe low nineties by sunset).
malaise
(269,054 posts)I'll take a Cat5 hurricane over a fire every day of the week.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But I enjoyed the story about Columbus and the moon.
canetoad
(17,169 posts)In my backyard. Time here is UTC -11.
malaise
(269,054 posts)Thanks mate.
canetoad
(17,169 posts)I always get up early, around 4am, so circumstances were all in place. It's mid-winter but has been exceptionally clear for days. After taking a few pix, we took the dogs to the beach in the dark and watched the moon fade. Didn't see the selenelion (thanks for the new word!) but did see a couple of satellites.
Will you get to see it there?
malaise
(269,054 posts)In two and a half hours.
Not my word - it was in the link from meadowlander.