To: StriperSniper
It doesn't really appear that the "southern" portion of the moon was ever totally eclipsed.
I had that impression too. I've seen it where it goes blood red all over.
That's because the moon didn't go through the center of the earth's shadow this eclipse, only the southern portion of it.
227 posted on
11/08/2003 6:10:31 PM PST by
plsvn
To: plsvn; ml/nj; bonesmccoy
Ahh...Yes...From the Saudi bombing thread:
![](http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2003Nov09T.gif)
232 posted on
11/08/2003 6:21:57 PM PST by
StriperSniper
(All this, of course, is simply pious fudge. - H. L. Mencken)
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