Before anyone writes, I just wrote:

> But more than merely this "convergent" event, which occurs every year,
today
> is also coincidentally the new moon, where the Moon goes completely dark,
and
> because this year it went "new" in the Earth-Sun plane, it created a full
> lunar eclipse in Africa, always a spectacular event.

The proper phrase should have been a "full solar eclipse." I certainly know
better. It's just that the moon created it, but the sun gets the credit, and
I've always found that unfair :-).

Wirt Atmar

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