Jellby <me### [at] privacynet> wrote:
> Some week ago we talked about how a lunar eclipse would look as seen from
> the Moon (i.e., with the Earth between Sun and Moon, it would be a solar
> eclipse from there), and about the possibility of rendering it. Yesterday I
> saw in Slashdot a piece of news
> (<http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/26/198259>) saying that
> this has been recorder for the first time by the Kaguya lunar orbiter. The
> pictures don't look too impressive for me, I don't see the expected red
> tint in the Earth's rim...

Yes, and sadly the video is even worse, specially the overly bright finale.  I
still prefer Kubrick's 1968 offering, thanks.  It's sad that reality never
quite matches are dreams...

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