Subj: Re: [earthchanges] ORBIT: incoming, signals, eclipse
Date: 08/25/1999 1:47:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time
From: glen@wans.net (Glen Deen)
Four attached emails from me to Brian Marsden and Daniel Green at
Harvard are summarized below.
"comet transiting crescent Moon" =
"1999 August 14.543 [should be 1999 August 15.043]
Small bright comet rapidly transited crescent Moon through center
towards the Sun at 8:02 CDT = 13:02 UT.
[should be 20:02 CDT = 25:02 UT = August 15 at 01:02 UT]
8-inch Schmidt Cassegrain [telescope] at 100X"
"followup lunar comet" = Narrative of observation.
"orientation correction" = I had gotten my north and south
reversed.
"epoch correction" = I forgot to add 12 hours for PM.
I have not received anything from Mardsen or Green.
I saw the comet on the Moon's equator, bisecting the thin
crescent and moving towards the Sun. It looked like a miniature
Comet Halley from April, 1986. The foreshortened fan-shaped
comet tail and the bright coma could be perfectly enclosed in a
square box one arcminute on a side with the tail filling the
bottom (north) side like a broad broom, and the bright coma
tangent to the top (south) side. It looked a little like the
video game "Pac-man" ghost image except with a smaller and
brighter head.
I first saw it in the dark crescent, but it was bright enough to
see against the bright crescent, and I definitely saw it move
towards the Sun against the daylight blue sky outside the Moon's
image. It seemed to move slowly at first and then accelerate.
The entire observation lasted less than two minutes.
The motion towards the Sun means east to west, and that is
a retrograde orbit if the Earth is the center or a direct orbit
if the Moon is the center.
At my sighting, the comet would have been way too small to
cast a shadow visible to the naked eye.
More comments in line below.
From: Phikent@aol.com <Phikent@aol.com>
To: earthchanges@onelist.com <earthchanges@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 4:57 AM
Subject: [earthchanges] ORBIT: incoming, signals, eclipse
anomalies
>5. Reports of lunar flash or object passing in front of moon:
>AOL/orbitback43.html
>
>EDITOR'S NOTE: To my knowledge the ELFRAD signal has not been
>connected to Comet Lee or any other body. Also check latest
>ELFRAD statement concerning harmonics which in my
>interpretation makes the actual distance as yet
>undetermined; however, I've been getting a boatload of reports
>concerning a lunar anomaly, something passing in front of
>or eclipsing the moon. HEADS UP!
>
>EMAIL, 08/22/1999 6:00:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time: At just
>before midnight (EDT) on Friday night I was looking at the
>moon while stopped at a traffic light. While observing,
>I noticed a bright blue flash dead center in the visible part
>of the moon. I am curious if anyone else noticed this or if it
>was perhaps one of those sparkles seen after rubbing your eyes.
August 21.163 UT = August 21 at 03:55 UT = 23:55 EDT Aug. 20.
>EMAIL, (separate source) 08/23/1999 5:12:57 AM Pacific Daylight
>Time: Did any one else see anything weird about the moon on the
>19th and 20th of Aug 1999.
>We witnessed something that hid 25% of the moon so at the time
>was at nearly 1/2 or at 1/2 moon, and the top half of the moon
>was also black. It lasted for less than 5 mins but was
>witnessed by 3 people. The moon appeared like a slice of
>cheese. It happened sometime around 10:30/ 10:45 on the
>evenings of 19/20. It looked like something came between the
>moon and the sun but on the opposite side to the earth?
>Anything special?
August 20.229 UT = 05:30 UT = 22:30 PDT Aug. 19
>EMAIL: 08/23/1999 7:26:37 PM Pacific Daylight Time: My husband
>saw the same event on the night of August 19/20/ 1999. He was
>working all night repairing storm damage when at around 12:30
>a.m. central time he looked up and noticed (behind the clouds)
>a bright light. An intense bright orange. He knew it
>wasn't a planet or star. After studying it for a while he
>realized that it was indeed the moon.
>He described it in almost the same way as you did. He said it
>lasted about 5 minutes at "around" 12:30 in the morning
>(10:30 PM Pacific). It appeared to be in the shape of a "hunk
>of cheese." He also said he'd never seen the moon "covered"
>in this way before. Only about 25% of the moon was showing.
>As I read your post to him he immediately got excited knowing
>someone else had seen this event too. He's usually very quick
>to thumb his nose at stories like this. I wonder what it was.
August 20.229 UT = 05:30 UT = 00:30 CDT
>EMAIL, 08/24/1999 12:48:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time: If there
>was something casting a shadow and we know roughly the time
>of day it happened ( I can get a more accurate time later );
>could someone work out the possibility of where this [shadow-
>casting body] could be?
>I would also [declare] the moon was an intense bright orange at
>both times or even red...(an un scheduled eclipse but from
>what ?) at 10:30 - 10:45 pm wherever they came from.
>Sighting 1 10:30 BST , Bracknell, England
>Sighting 2 10:30 PT .???? , USA
>So was there any sightings at 10:30 pm anywhere else?
>EMAIL: 08/24/1999 2:20:37 AM Pacific Daylight Time: I also saw
>the moon appear strange in NYC on Aug. 19th around midnight.
>It appeared that the top half of the moon had disappeared. It
>was unusually large and bright red that evening. We thought at
>the time that it could be cloud cover.
August 20.167 = 04:00 UT = 00:00 EDT
Here is a summary if I made no mistake.
August
Epoch (UT) Event
15.043 Deen observes small comet between Earth and Moon
in evening daylight moving westward towards Sun.
20.167 Midnight NYC.
20.229 Many sightings of large shadow "eclipsing" top
portion of gibbous Moon PDT and CDT.
21.163 Impact on Moon?
I suggest we watch the Moon tonight and tomorrow night.
I intend be ready to roll some videotape.
Please add my report to your list.
Any others?
Peace,
Glen
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820 Baxter Drive
Plano, Texas 75025 USA
Phone: 972-517-6980
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Reply-To: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
From: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
To: "Brian Marsden" <bmarsden@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Daniel Green" <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
Subject: comet trasiting crescent Moon
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:16:45 -0500
Glen William Deen, BSEE
820 Baxter Drive
Plano, Texas 75025 USA
Phone: 972-517-6980
Home back yard, 96.706ºW., +33.078ºN
Comet
1999 August 14.543
Small bright comet rapidly transited crescent Moon through center
towards the Sun at 8:02 CDT = 13:02 UT.
8-inch Schmidt Cassegrain at 100X, manual setting circles.
-Glen
----
Glen W. Deen, BSEE
820 Baxter Drive
Plano, Texas 75025 USA
Phone: 972-517-6980
Reply-To: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
From: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
To: "Brian Marsden" <bmarsden@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Daniel Green" <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
Subject: followup lunar comet
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 20:42:44 -0500
The comet was fan shaped and about 1 arcminute in size. I first
saw it in the dark crescent. The coma was pointed northward, and
the fan tail was pointed southward. It moved rapidly westward.
It was so bright that I could see it transit the illuminated
crescent, and I saw it in the daylight sky background with the
lunar crescent still in the 100 power field of view. I would say
its angular velocity accelerated. I tried to show it to my wife,
but she wasn't able to see it. By the time I got my eye in front
of the eyepiece again, it was already outside the bright crescent
moving westward.
This comet must have been between the Moon and the Earth when I
first saw it.
-Glen
----
Glen W. Deen, BSEE
820 Baxter Drive
Plano, Texas 75025 USA
Phone: 972-517-6980
Reply-To: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
From: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
To: "Brian Marsden" <bmarsden@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Daniel Green" <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
Subject: orientation correction
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 03:17:05 -0500
In my haste, I forgot to check my north-south directions.
The coma was pointed southward, not northward as I wrote earlier,
and
the fan tail was pointed northward, not southward.
There is no question about the direction of motion being
westward.
-Glen
----
Glen W. Deen, BSEE
820 Baxter Drive
Plano, Texas 75025 USA
Phone: 972-517-6980
Reply-To: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
From: "Glen Deen" <glen@wans.net>
To: "Brian Marsden" <bmarsden@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Daniel Green" <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
Subject: epoch correction (comet trasiting crescent Moon)
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 13:05:58 -0500
Obviously I observed this comet at 8:02 PM CDT
The young Moon is visible in the evening, not the morning.
= 20:02 CDT = 25:02 UT
= 01:02 UT August 15, 1999
= August 15.043
In my excitement, I had failed to add 12 hours.
Sorry about that.
-Glen
From: Glen Deen <glen@wans.net>
To: Brian Marsden <bmarsden@cfa.harvard.edu>
Cc: Daniel Green <dgreen@cfa.harvard.edu>
Date: Saturday, August 14, 1999 8:16 PM
Subject: comet trasiting crescent Moon
>Glen William Deen, BSEE
>820 Baxter Drive
>Plano, Texas 75025 USA
>Phone: 972-517-6980
>
>Home back yard, 96.706ºW., +33.078ºN
>Comet
>1999 August 14.543
Should be August 15.043
>Small bright comet rapidly transited crescent Moon through
center
>towards the Sun at 8:02 CDT = 13:02 UT.
Should be 20:02 CDT = 25:02 UT = 01:02 UT August 15.
>8-inch Schmidt Cassegrain at 100X, manual setting circles.
>
>-Glen
>
>----
>Glen W. Deen, BSEE
>820 Baxter Drive
>Plano, Texas 75025 USA
>Phone: 972-517-6980