The Fourth Week of February 2008 Lunar Eclipse with Romantic Blue

The Fourth week of February 2008 and the LUNAR ECLIPSE with Romantic Blue

by

Professor Kotcherlakota Lakshmi Narayana

http://trusciencetrutechnology.blogspot.com/

key words: Romantic Blue, Lunar Eclipse 2008, Gravity Waves, Sirius,Romantic Flower, turquoise, Copper hues, Saturn, Sun, Solar wind, SCIENCE EXPRESS

ABSTRACT:

The present author surmises that the Sun, Saturn have provided the backdrop conditions for the Earth's atmosphere, due to solar winds. The Lunar eclipse, though not visible in Visakhapatnam, has definitely yielded certain effects that have been observed by the author. It was an enchanting site and the weather was somewhat hazy hence it allowed finding the extent of the Romantic Blue Hue of the Moon up to a circular region of 30degrees radius. On the 19th February 2008 the author has observed, between 4.30pm and 10:00pm, certain gravity waves in the atmosphere. These waves were of two kinds one set moving from east to west and the other from south to north. The criss-cross patterns of the complex gravity phenomenon is very significant in view of the onset of total lunar eclipse. The Romantic Blue was a different experience than that quoted in literature as a flash of turquoise (blue) bracketing the red of totality of a lunar eclipse. The after effect of the Lunar eclipse was the windy weather at Visakhapatnam beginning from the time of MID-ECLIPSE.

INTRODUCTION:

The Earth light on the moon is about 60 times as bright as the Moon-shine on the earth. The surface of the moon not illuminated by the sun receives pale-light from the earth. This is termed Earth-shine or Earth-light and so Moon becomes some what visible. The detailed spectroscopyrevealed that the earth-shine on Moon contains a greater percentage of Blue-light than the sun-light.

LOCAL WEATHER:

On the 16th Saturday and 17th Sunday the sky was quite clear and the stars were visible. Especially the Orion constellation gave a delightful view. The Moon at its zenith at 8.00pm on 16th was 2degrees away from Mars while the next day it was 11degrees away from Mars. Also on the 18th Sunday the weather was very sunny and people who qued to visit the SCIENCE EXPRESS** train felt the warmth of the Sun. On 18th February 2008,In Visakhapatnam at Waltair recorded temperature was 22.6C minimum, and maximum at 5:30pm 28.2C while at Airport minimum was 22.2C and maximum at 5:30pm was 31C.The humidity at Waltair varied from 76% to 74% while at the Airport it varied from 80% to 81%.

GRAVITY WAVES:

On the 19th February 2008 the author has observed, between 4.30pm and 10:00pm, certain gravity waves in the atmosphere. These waves were of two kinds one set moving from east to west and the other from south to north. The criss- cross patterns of the complex gravity phenomenon is very significant in view of the onset of total lunar eclipse. The weather on this was very pleasant and people felt a slight relief of the warmth of the past couple of days.

TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE:

{Spaceweather.com penned by Dr.Tony Phillips saystotal Eclipse ends 10:51pm EST. Total Eclipse begins 10:01 pm EST and Mid-Eclipse occurs at 10:26pm EST and partial eclipse begins 8:43pm EST and ends at 12:09am EST. Further he says that transition of the Earth's shadow takes about an hour. The first of red appear around 10 pm EST (7 pm PST), heralding the coppery hues that scroll across the Moon's surface and fades away after 11 pm EST (8 pm PST). Be alert for another color: turquoise. Observers of several recent Lunar eclipses have reported a flash of turquoise bracketing the red of totality. Eclipse researcher Dr. Richard Keen of the University of Colorado explains:"During a lunar eclipse, most of the light illuminating the moon passes through the stratosphere where it is reddened by scattering. However, light passing through the Upper stratosphere penetrates the ozone layer, which absorbs red light and actually makes the passing light ray bluer." This can be seen, he says, as a soft blue fringe around the red core of Earth's shadow.} The present author's interest is in the data: [Solar wind speed: 618.3 km/sec density: 1.4 protons/cm3: Today at 1445 UT and X-ray Solar Flares 6-hr max: A0 1440 UT Feb19 24-hr: A0 1440 UT Feb19 Updated: Today at: 1440 UT. The sun is blank--no sunspots. Credit: SOHO/MDI

The present author has already reported several times the appearance of blue hue in his publications made at his wbsites

http://tru-science.westgodavari.org/

and as well at

http://trusciencetrutechnology.blogspot.com/

DATA and OBSERVATIONS:

The weather on the 20th February 2008 was a dramatic change of warm Sun. On the evening of 20th February, 2008 WEDNESDAY the author found the romantic blue shrouded Moon hovering over the Visakhapatnam Beach at 7.15pm. It was an enchanting site and the weather was somewhat hazy hence it allowed to find the extent of the Romantic Blue Hue of the Moon up to a circular region of 30degrees radius. The angle measured by an arm's stretch distance. Sirius is a main sequence star that is about 70 times more luminous than the sun.

ROMANTIC BLUE:

A contrast with the Romantic Blue Moon has been the Sirius (Mahashvana*) in the constellation of Canis Majoris of Magnitude -1.46, Right Accession 6h 42m, Declination -16° 39m, of type A1 (blue-white) and at a distance of 8.7 light years. This star is at the mouth of Canis Major (the large dog); brightest star in the sky Sirius ("the scorched one") the common name or Alpha Canis Majoris- Bayer listing,9 Canis Majoris- Flamsteed listing, HD 48915 - Henry Draper Catalog listing, and BD -16 1591 --Bonner Durchmusterung listing.

ASTRO-PANCHANG:

The waning gibbous Moon was a little bit away to the right of Saturn on January 25, 2008. But the Astro-Panchang of India specifies that the Moon, on 21st Feb 2008, would be with the Saturn (Shani) and Ketu (a mystic object or a location in the Solar system).Surprisingly it specifies the Sun along with Rahu (a mystic object or a location in the Solar system).For the 21st February the FULL MOON begins at 8:20am in Andhra Pradesh and Ends at night 6:53pm.So the Lunar eclipse was not visible at Visakhapatnam.

SATURN and SUN:

The present author surmises that the Sun, Saturn have provided the backdrop conditions for the Earth's atmosphere, due to solar winds. The Lunar eclipse, though not visible in Visakhapatnam, has definitely yielded certain effects that have been observed by the author. Analysis need to be understood in the light of the fact that the lunar eclipse extent slightly extends beyond the usually understood eclipse totality or occurrence of a partial eclipse. First of all it was noticed that clouds have enveloped the sky at Visakhapatnam at 10:00pm on the 20th February 2008 and a flower tree has just then bloomed in full fluorescence (at Narasimha Ashram) and fragrance which, filled the air. The atmosphere was remarkable silent ofany bird chirping. Especially the crows were silent.

The 21st February observations were that there was a bright sunshine followed by an after effect of the Lunar eclipse, of a windy weather at Visakhapatnam beginning from the time of MID-ECLIPSE. The wind direction was from East to West.
The Romantic Blue that sustained almost to the mid-night of 20th Feb 2008 gave way to the usual bright Moonshine and the haze has dwindled.

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* BVSRAO's :" instructions manual for constellation and star finder" , page 35,1976, (Res) 23, Umayal Road, Kilpauk, Madras-600010, Patent No.145141of31-12-1976.

** Present author addressed the school children gathered in a pandal set up in front of the SCIENCE EXPRESS train and enlightened them about developments in the Computer utility and human endeavor. He stressed the analogy of Human being and the Computer Architecture and outlined how scientists are struggling to imitate nature and to replace the human with a robot of remarkable artificial intelligence. He told the children that it is the brain that drives them and organisms are something like work machines. The author was photographed, while delivering the lecture. Many a people enjoyed the visit of the SCIENCE EXPRESS train consisting of 13 bogies (compartments) of a decorated train with several displays. The first bogie gave about BIGBANG and production of particles by smashing machines of head-on collisions of Gold Atoms etc.The other bogies covered the subjects of nano-technologies. Nanomaterials and their structures and the nanobiomaterials structures and their activities in living organisms are illustrated. Brain and its neural functioning with the details of its study using NMR and PET techniques are brought out. Gravitational lens effect and Cosmic showers and environmental global challenges are detailed. Biomedicine, Immunological studies, Zebra Fish (originally collected in India) mechanisms, Green Giants, Magneotshpere, Sun and Earth studies by IR, NIR, Radio etc displayswere very illustrative. School children and teachers, thanked me for making them to prepare notes in a very easy and fast manner, especially due to the pressure of quick movement in the train to accommodate other viewers from schools. Some children noted my Email: freekln@yahoo.co.in