Super Wolf Blood Moon Check-in

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Lonegranger

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Re: Super Wolf Blood Moon Check-in
« Reply #30 on: February 04, 2019, 10:12:15 AM »
But exposing yourself to a full super blood wolf moon light? There is no maybe. You WILL get damaged. Maybe this is why rates of cancer, mental illness, allergies and dementia are on the rise.....people not taking moonlight safety seriously!
You do realize that a lunar eclipse (blood moon) reduces the amount of moonlight, don't you?  Isn't less moonlight supposed to be a good thing?
Fantastic question, and one many junior astronomers often raise!

There are three reasons why I'd be hesitant in spite of the supposed reduced moonlight.
1) People tend to flock to watch things with labels like "Super Moon" or "Blood Moon" or "Eclipse". People who otherwise would have no moonlight exposure, due to being good people that don't stay out at night, are introduced to these new dangers - and their body is unready to handle the new attack due to a lack of history in fighting these pathogen's light.
2) If this is indeed caused by a shadow object, then one MUST worry about the shadow object lensing and concentrating the polarized light along its edges.
3) Empirical and historical evidence points to the Blood Moon as a particularly dangerous phenomena that affects many life forms otherwise not affected by the moon in a measurable way.

I imagine you are going to provide a link to this Empirical and Historical evidence. It would be an interesting read. If moonlight was as dangerous as you claim why has no government ever put out a health warning, as I’m sure they have access to the same information as yourself?
On a technical point what equipment have you been using to measure the degree of polarisation it would be interesting to know how you have come by your knowledge as it contradicts all I’ve seen about light polarisation levels during different moon phases. Assuming you have carried out such measurements  did you conduct them throughout one or more than one lunar phase?

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Re: Super Wolf Blood Moon Check-in
« Reply #31 on: February 04, 2019, 08:55:45 PM »
2) If this is indeed caused by a shadow object, then one MUST worry about the shadow object lensing and concentrating the polarized light along its edges.
Why should anyone worry about "the lensing and concentrating" of a polarized shadow?  Or am I missing a unique FE meaning for the word "shadow"?
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Re: Super Wolf Blood Moon Check-in
« Reply #32 on: February 04, 2019, 09:23:05 PM »
2) If this is indeed caused by a shadow object, then one MUST worry about the shadow object lensing and concentrating the polarized light along its edges.
Why should anyone worry about "the lensing and concentrating" of a polarized shadow?  Or am I missing a unique FE meaning for the word "shadow"?

John is postulating that something in the "shadow object" bends the light as it passes by the circular edge allowing for a concentrating of light past the shadow object. Imagine a refracting atmosphere on a globe acting as an annular lens. Or perhaps he's heard of Poisson's Spot, a phenomenon by which diffracted light around a circular obscuration gives rise to a point of intensity on axis. This, however, requires a set of criteria that the Moon does not meet. Regardless of the proposed mechanism, if light were focused and concentrated, it would be observed. Which it's not.