Green Moonlight

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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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

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.


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"Phil Wheeler" 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

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.

"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.

"Howard Lester" wrote in message
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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 pictu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A

And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
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I think that 1% is being generous.


"Ioannis" wrote in message
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"Howard Lester" 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 pictu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A

And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
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"Fred Scharmann" 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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"Howard Lester" 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 pictu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiyUSv2Z07A

And to think the output of this "flashbulb" was 1% of the sun.
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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!

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.


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"Patrick Edward Murray" 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!