Stratospheric Transparency Derived from Total Lunar Eclipse Colors, 1665-1800

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Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004pasp..116..886s&link_type=abstract

The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Volume 116, Issue 823, pp. 886-893.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Keywords: Atmospheric Effects, Catalogs, Earth, Eclipses, Moon

Scientific paper

A catalog of the observed colors of the totally eclipsed Moon during the period 1665-1800 has been prepared from published contemporary reports. Nearly all of the observations were made from Europe. Usable eclipses number 36 in all, or on average, about one eclipse every 4 years. The hue and intensity of the faint illumination of the Moon's disk during totality yield a measure of the aerosol optical depth of the Earth's stratosphere. Unlike the 19th and 20th centuries, the period under study showed a relatively clear stratosphere at nearly all times. Independent but less direct evidence from Greenland ice cores, which contain an annual record of aerosol fallout from large volcanic eruptions, confirms that this was a period of very few, if any, large stratosphere-penetrating volcanic eruptions.

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