Lunar eclipse ?
Discussion
ds. I knew Pukin was up to no good.
rallycross said:
Impasse said:
Found it.
(I'm in SE Hampshire, this was this evening).
Yes that's what we were looking at then 15 minutes later no Moon to be seen!(I'm in SE Hampshire, this was this evening).
Alternatively, "it disappeared behind some thick cloud".
At my local weather station (in North West England) the Moon set at 9.33pm; due to the local geography I can safely subtract an hour from this predicted time to say when I can wave the Moon goodbye over the horizon (and the Sun ditto
).We've had posters on the "Science!" forum before who were surprised that the Moon was in a different place every night; similarly, we've had posters on there who expected that people jumping up (off the earth's surface) would be whisked away in a Westerly direction at a very high rate of knots (the exact rate of knots would be latitude-dependent, a point lost on said posters
).Said posters had - at best - a marginal grip on reality and made for some very entertaining material on a regular basis...
PS Thanks, Impasse for the pic
- it looked just the same in Lancashire .PPS rallycross, a lunar eclipse proceeds as last Friday's solar eclipse did - with increasing 'bites' taken out of the moon for, say, 30 minutes or more (it doesn't just "disappear
) before 'totallity' then ditto as the thing gradually reappears again looking less like toe nail clippings 
by the minute...NEEP said:
oakdale said:
What do you think may be getting between us and the moon to cause an eclipse?
You do realise that a lunar eclipse is caused by the earth getting in between the Sun and the moon? And no, I don't think this is what the op witnessedI thought that's what a new moon is, so I'll have to swot up on this.
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