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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Glen W. Deen, BSEE

820 Baxter Drive

Plano, Texas 75025 USA

Phone: 972-517-6980

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Experiment" Reviews of Modern Physics, 5, 202-242 (1933).

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Predictions: http://www.egroups.com/list/astro-revelation/

 

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

 

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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

 

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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