On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:20:57 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:47:39 +0000, Alan White wrote:

How do you explain the floodlit lunar landscape if the sun, the source
of the floodlight, is obscured by the earth?

I donno what you are looking at but when I follow the link I get an image
entitled " Solar Eclipse from the Moon Illustration Credit & Copyright:
Hana Gartstein" which is a view of the earth from the moon during a (from
out POV) lunar eclipse.

Also look at the buggy and rock shadows which indicate a light source
behind and to the left of the camera.

No buggy or rocks in view...

Click on the image.

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On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:06:39 +0000, Alan White wrote:

No buggy or rocks in view...

Click on the image.

Ahhhhh....

Quite right what you say the lunar part is wrong but we are talking about
what the sun would look like viewed from the moon with the earth in the
way and why the moon turns red.

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On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:02:23 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

Quite right what you say the lunar part is wrong but we are talking about
what the sun would look like viewed from the moon with the earth in the
way and why the moon turns red.

Yes, I understand that but this is a 'sci' newsgroup and that picture is
an excellent example of bad science.

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Twenty-eight miles NW of Glasgow, overlooking Lochs Long and Goil in Argyll, Scotland.
Webcam and weather:- http://windycroft.gt-britain.co.uk/weather

"Alan White" wrote :
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:02:23 +0000 (GMT), "Dave Liquorice"
wrote:

Quite right what you say the lunar part is wrong but we are talking about
what the sun would look like viewed from the moon with the earth in the
way and why the moon turns red.

Yes, I understand that but this is a 'sci' newsgroup and that picture is
an excellent example of bad science.

Even more to the point, think of the relative sizes of the earth and
moon. Both objects are at (effectively) the same distance from the
sun, and they are at the same distance from each other. From the
earth, the moon subtends almost exactly the same angle as does
the sun, hence the perfection of a solar eclipse. But from the
moon ......

Philip

On Mar 4, 6:11 pm, (Gareth Slee) wrote:


Slightly different but how about a Solar Eclipse viewed form the Moon?http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070302.html

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Not "slightly different" at all - that is exactly what Les was
describing. A lunar eclipse for us on Earth is a solar eclipse if
you're on the moon. Although I'm not sure how closely it would
resemble that mock-up picture...

Rob

On Mar 5, 12:50 pm, wrote:
On Mar 4, 6:11 pm, (Gareth Slee) wrote:



Slightly different but how about a Solar Eclipse viewed form the Moon?http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070302.html

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Garethhttp://www.celticquilts.co.uk/weather.html

Not "slightly different" at all - that is exactly what Les was
describing. A lunar eclipse for us on Earth is a solar eclipse if
you're on the moon. Although I'm not sure how closely it would
resemble that mock-up picture...

Rob

Hardly at all. The earh would not be illuminated because
it's night, the sun being on the far side of the earth. The ring of
light round the earth, caused by the atmosphere, would be much
brighter and not nearly so concentrated near the bright point. Also
the moon being in eclipse would not be illuminated, least of all from
behind the observer, who be in the dark, rather like the artist, one
could say. I don't think I'd want to put my name to that car-crash of
an effort, let alone claim copyright.

Tudor Hughes.

On 5 Mar 2007 05:47:15 -0800, Tudor Hughes wrote:

Hardly at all. The earh would not be illuminated because it's night,
the sun being on the far side of the earth.

Er no it would be illumated by the (red) reflected light from the moon.
Just like the non-sun lit part of the moon is illuminated (and naked eye
visible) by reflected light from the earth, Earth Shine. Now wether
there would be enough red light to be naked eye visible is another matter
matter but what the heck you'd still see our cities... B-)

The ring of light round the earth, caused by the atmosphere, would be
much brighter

I agree and it wouldn't be even all round unless the sun was directly in
line. As part of the sun is still visible the diametrically opposite side
should be darker.

Also the moon being in eclipse would not be illuminated, least of all
from behind the observer, who be in the dark,

No bathed in the red light filtering through and being defracted by the
earths atmosphere.

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