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Date: 07 Nov 2006 06:54:28
From: Starlord
Subject: Green Moonlight
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Last night I didn't go up to the corner, instead I set up across of diamond
jim's casino for 3 hours, and everyone coming out of the driveway could read
my protest sign on it's dayglow poster board and many of them did slow down
to read it. Even the guards cam over to read it. So I figure the owner will
hear about it. Anyway I was set up on the moon and whenit was about 20
degress up I noticed something, now there was a layer of high thin clouds.
At first I had to dig my glasses out and put'm on and yes I still saw it,
and then I looked in the scope and yes it showed there too. There was a
slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it. All I can figure
is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect. It lasted until
the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost that odd greenest color to
it's light.
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The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
Telescope Buyers FAQ
http://home.inreach.com/starlord
Sidewalk Astronomy
www.sidewalkastronomy.info
The Church of Eternity
http://home.inreach.com/starlord/church/Eternity.html
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Date: 07 Nov 2006 15:28:33
From: Phil Wheeler
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Starlord wrote:
> There was a
> slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it. All I can figure
> is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect. It lasted until
> the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost that odd greenest color to
> it's light.
>
Reflected light from all those Green Laser
Pointers? ;)
Phil
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Date: 07 Nov 2006 09:08:47
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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None of those out this way, and have you ever seen a photo taken indoors
under neon lights with outdorr film? there's a greenest cast to the photo,
that's kind of what it looked like. All I can figure is the angle of the
moonlight, the crystals in the thin clouds all added up to this.
--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
Telescope Buyers FAQ
http://home.inreach.com/starlord
Sidewalk Astronomy
www.sidewalkastronomy.info
The Church of Eternity
http://home.inreach.com/starlord/church/Eternity.html
"Phil Wheeler" <wt6uh-ng7@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Starlord wrote:
>> There was a slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it.
>> All I can figure is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that
>> effect. It lasted until the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost
>> that odd greenest color to it's light.
>>
>
> Reflected light from all those Green Laser Pointers? ;)
>
> Phil
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Date: 07 Nov 2006 12:03:11
From: Ernie Dunbar
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Phil Wheeler wrote:
> Starlord wrote:
> > There was a
> > slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it. All I can figure
> > is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect. It lasted until
> > the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost that odd greenest color to
> > it's light.
> >
>
> Reflected light from all those Green Laser
> Pointers? ;)
Heh. Yeah. Because you need to use a laser pointer to point out the
moon. :)
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Date: 07 Nov 2006 15:11:56
From: Howard Lester
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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"Ernie Dunbar" wrote
> Heh. Yeah. Because you need to use a laser pointer to point out the
> moon. :)
Many years ago a camera store clerk told me someone called to ask what size
flashbulb to use for taking a picture of the moon.
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 00:26:43
From: Ioannis
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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"Howard Lester" <hlester@mmto.org > wrote in message
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[snip]
> Many years ago a camera store clerk told me someone called to ask what size
> flashbulb to use for taking a picture of the moon.
I would think that even this "flashbulb" wouldn't help for such a picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A
And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
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Ioannis
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Date: 07 Nov 2006 17:48:04
From: Fred Scharmann
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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I think that 1% is being generous.
"Ioannis" <morpheus@olympus.mons > wrote in message
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> "Howard Lester" <hlester@mmto.org> wrote in message
> news:eir0b7$793$1@onion.ccit.arizona.edu...
> [snip]
>
>> Many years ago a camera store clerk told me someone called to ask what
>> size
>> flashbulb to use for taking a picture of the moon.
>
> I would think that even this "flashbulb" wouldn't help for such a picture:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A
>
> And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
> --
> Ioannis
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> Backup not found. [A]bort, [R]etry, [P]anic...
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 00:58:59
From: Ioannis
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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"Fred Scharmann" <fjs3_get_rid_of_this@adelphia.net > wrote in message
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> I think that 1% is being generous.
You think so?
Check Wiki on it. Section "Test":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_bomba
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Ioannis
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> "Ioannis" <morpheus@olympus.mons> wrote in message
> news:1162938407.608870@athnrd02...
> > "Howard Lester" <hlester@mmto.org> wrote in message
> > news:eir0b7$793$1@onion.ccit.arizona.edu...
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Many years ago a camera store clerk told me someone called to ask what
> >> size
> >> flashbulb to use for taking a picture of the moon.
> >
> > I would think that even this "flashbulb" wouldn't help for such a picture:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A
> >
> > And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
> > --
> > Ioannis
> > -------
> > Backup not found. [A]bort, [R]etry, [P]anic...
> >
>
>
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 12:15:39
From: Patrick Edward Murray
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Dennis,
Maybe the green moonlight has something to do with fires out there?
Forgive me if they are fairly far away from you though but smoke from
forest fires
or from volcanic ash does color the moon or stars.
Hope that your cold is better buddy!:)
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Date: 08 Nov 2006 12:34:49
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Ya the head cold is gone, and today I'm watching the big show. But the
fires, hmmm.. Don't thing so this way, that fire area is/was to my east by
southeast and the smoke was heading almost due south. But it could have
still played a part. I was just a bit surprized by the color, I'd never seen
it that washed out green before and working the sidewalks like I do I see
the full moon a lot. Most the time I've seen the moon threw smoke it's dark
and a bit redest if seen at all. Last year there was times the sun was a big
red ball because of the smoke.
--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
Telescope Buyers FAQ
http://home.inreach.com/starlord
Sidewalk Astronomy
www.sidewalkastronomy.info
The Church of Eternity
http://home.inreach.com/starlord/church/Eternity.html
"Patrick Edward Murray" <ed1ward2@verizon.net > wrote in message
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> Dennis,
>
> Maybe the green moonlight has something to do with fires out there?
> Forgive me if they are fairly far away from you though but smoke from
> forest fires
> or from volcanic ash does color the moon or stars.
>
> Hope that your cold is better buddy!:)
>
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Date: 12 Nov 2006 22:02:48
From: Guy Macon
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Starlord wrote:
>There was a slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it.
>All I can figure is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect.
What do you expect from an object made out of green cheese? :)
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Date: 15 Nov 2006 14:36:38
From: TBerk
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Starlord wrote:
> Last night I didn't go up to the corner, instead I set up across of diamond
> jim's casino for 3 hours, and everyone coming out of the driveway could read
> my protest sign on it's dayglow poster board and many of them did slow down
> to read it. Even the guards cam over to read it. So I figure the owner will
> hear about it.
Good for you.
> Anyway I was set up on the moon and whenit was about 20
> degress up I noticed something, now there was a layer of high thin clouds.
> At first I had to dig my glasses out and put'm on and yes I still saw it,
> and then I looked in the scope and yes it showed there too. There was a
> slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it. All I can figure
> is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect. It lasted until
> the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost that odd greenest color to
> it's light.
>
>
While traveling by bus across the country in 1980 I saw some colors
waaaaay up in the sky that we all noted. (It was daytime but) the
general consensus was it might (might) have been the same affect that
produces rainbows, but at a very high altitude and caused not by water
vapor but ice crystals.
Now I am familial with the halo affect we see around the moon on
certain nights but this is a bit different in that the various
wavelengths get spread much farther away from each other from the
observer's point of view.
Hmmm, I'd have liked to see this green moon for myself.
TBerk
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Date: 15 Nov 2006 15:24:34
From: Starlord
Subject: Re: Green Moonlight
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Ya, it was a bit odd, for all my years, I'd never seen that before, if the
moon would have been high in the sky, maybe ice crystals, and it was mostly
likly that anyway, but odd was the moon was just about 15degrees up and with
a thin layer of clouds.
An hour later as it hit the 45degree mark it fomed something I wish I'd had
my camera, the clouds had thinned even more and there was just enough of
them to form instead of a ring, a sharp field around the moon's image which
seem to act as a lens because it became a very sharp image. On the ground
there was no wind, but a layer of cold northen air was moving across us at
about the 50,000ft mark.
--
The Lone Sidewalk Astronomer of Rosamond
Telescope Buyers FAQ
http://home.inreach.com/starlord
Sidewalk Astronomy
www.sidewalkastronomy.info
The Church of Eternity
http://home.inreach.com/starlord/church/Eternity.html
"TBerk" <bayareaberk@yahoo.com > wrote in message
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> Starlord wrote:
>> Last night I didn't go up to the corner, instead I set up across of
>> diamond
>> jim's casino for 3 hours, and everyone coming out of the driveway could
>> read
>> my protest sign on it's dayglow poster board and many of them did slow
>> down
>> to read it. Even the guards cam over to read it. So I figure the owner
>> will
>> hear about it.
>
> Good for you.
>
>> Anyway I was set up on the moon and whenit was about 20
>> degress up I noticed something, now there was a layer of high thin
>> clouds.
>> At first I had to dig my glasses out and put'm on and yes I still saw it,
>> and then I looked in the scope and yes it showed there too. There was a
>> slight greenest cast to the moon and light coming from it. All I can
>> figure
>> is it had to be the clouds, but I'd never seen that effect. It lasted
>> until
>> the moon reached the 43 degree mark where it lost that odd greenest color
>> to
>> it's light.
>>
>>
>
> While traveling by bus across the country in 1980 I saw some colors
> waaaaay up in the sky that we all noted. (It was daytime but) the
> general consensus was it might (might) have been the same affect that
> produces rainbows, but at a very high altitude and caused not by water
> vapor but ice crystals.
>
> Now I am familial with the halo affect we see around the moon on
> certain nights but this is a bit different in that the various
> wavelengths get spread much farther away from each other from the
> observer's point of view.
>
>
> Hmmm, I'd have liked to see this green moon for myself.
>
>
> TBerk
>
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