Hi Rob, Yes, I was marveling at the sudden "appearance" of those close proximity stars. Here west of Vegas it was a nice night and the skies were clear with a great view. Definitely was worth burning the midnight oil for...!
Best regards, Daniel Daniel Noyes Genuine Moon & Mars Meteorite Rocks i...@moonmarsrocks.com www.moonmarsrocks.com -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Lunar eclipse recap From: "Matson, Rob D." <robert.d.mat...@leidos.com> Date: Tue, April 15, 2014 10:54 am To: "i...@moonmarsrocks.com" <i...@moonmarsrocks.com>, Meteorite list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Hi Daniel, The show was great from southern California. Even more impressive to me than the proximity of Mars was how close Spica was to the Moon -- less than 2 degrees to the right. So close, in fact, that it was hard to see Spica until the eclipse was well underway. Once the eclipse was total, I could also see the dim, 5.2-magnitude star HIP 66098 (76 Virginis) only 0.5 degrees from the upper limb of the Moon. --Rob -----Original Message----- From: meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com [mailto:meteorite-list-boun...@meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of i...@moonmarsrocks.com Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 10:06 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] New ebay listings with fake Moon/ Mars displays Hello All, For those lucky enough to be able to see it, that Lunar eclipse last night was fantastic, plus the added bonus of a very bright Mars nearby made even more visible by the darkened sky...WOW! I have an alert on a couple new ebay listings. Some "steelhorse1994" fake displays from 2011-2012 are being resold by someone. Unfortunately, he sold well over a 1000 of these and they will keep cropping up. It's too bad ebay did not have the spine to retroactively alert everyone he sold to. I dropped the seller a note but heard nothing back and the listings are still active at the time of this writing. So, I also reported it to ebay. Here are the links to the listings: http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOON-ROCK-Lunar-Meteorite-NWA-4881-/261452325481?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdfc5e269 http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARS-ROCK-A-Pieace-of-The-Mars-Meteorite-NWA-4925-/261452342487?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cdfc624d7 Best regards, Daniel Daniel Noyes Genuine Moon & Mars Meteorite Rocks i...@moonmarsrocks.com www.moonmarsrocks.com ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
