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Lunar Eclipse

December 21, 2010 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

Made it out of bed last night at 1:45 am to see a moon that looked suspiciously like the Apple logo with a bite taken out of the upper left hand side.  Product placement?  Or first solstice eclipse since 1638?

Earlier in the night, after our carol-singing party had disbanded around 9 pm, we saw an even better lunar vision: the full moon blazing, surrounded by a perfectly circular ring of clouds.  The larger circle was about 5 times as big as the moon itself.  No clouds inside the circle, but a wispy gray circle that seemed to hold the high clouds in the rest of the sky at bay.

Strange and beautiful things.

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Steve Mentz
Professor of English
St. John’s University
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