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Updated 12/10/2005

Created 6/1/1998

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Lunar Eclipse Danjon Ratings

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Your name: Sean Elton

Place observing from: City : Johannesburg Country: South Africa

Your rating number for the eclipse at mid totality Danjon) 2.4

the reason for your rating-explain (colors, brightness etc) : Most of surface a brick red colour - slightly more toward a darker red in the upper right quadrant, with a greyer colour towards the lower left Quadrant. A brighter rim to the umbra was present (- very light yellow to white)

Sky conditions - clear

Time : 22:00 (South Africa Time)

Viewed by :Naked Eye

harry@hhayfield.fsnet.co.uk
Welsh Lib Dem

England

Location 1) Bontnewydd 52° 16' North 4° 1' West

Rating: 2 Remarks: It looked a lot like Mars. Red colour with a white polar cap

Location 2) Gabowen Hospital, Oswestry, ShropshireRating: 0

The moon disappeared into the night

Location 3) Edinburgh, Lothian

Rating: 3 Location 4) Cambridgeshire

Rating: 2

Bontnewydd: me

Gabowen: My grandfather, Thomas Hayfield

ahhh interestingEdinburgh: The Independent Newspaper

Cambridgehsire: The Times Newspaper

Eric Pauer

in England

 

From London (UK), I would rate the 9 Jan 2001 total lunar eclipse as a L = 3.0 .

For complete details and my eclipse report, check out

http://www.bit-net.com/~pauer.

Eric