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   Copy: velovich03@aol.com   
      
   velovich03@aol.com (Velovich03) writes:   
      
   > I was fortunate to see this evening's lunar eclipse.  I noticed, when it   
   > was 3/4 dark that I could see a dim orange glow that was in the shadow   
   > region.  I could make out the rim of the darkened disk.  What is this?   
   > Where did that glow come from?   
      
   It is the light of the Sun, filtered and refracted through Earth's atmosphere.   
   If you were on the Moon looking back toward earth, during an eclipse, you would   
   see the Earth's atmosphere as a ring of "sunset red," running all the way   
   around   
   the rim of the Earth --- and that is exactly what it is: The light of the Sun,   
   "setting" (or rising) behind every point along the rim of the Earth.   
      
      
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