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I went looking for the eclipse this morning Paul M. It was way too overcast (as you predicted), but the colors of the sky over Eastern Point, facing west, were very unusual, for sunrise. The panorama was taken at Niles Beach, in the direction towards where the setting moon would be, at around 7:15 this morning. Do you think the bright light and pinkish color in the sky is a reflection from the setting Blood Moon?
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Good Morning Gloucester 
Paul’s Response:
I’m on the phone dictating on Siri so this is going to be kind of brief. But you might be right. You’re pointing in the right direction for the full moon. Just don’t know if the moon was still up at that time.
From Andrews point right around that time the sky did look kind of weird with the light coming from two different directions so that could be the full moon. Done
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My more nuanced answer now that I am on a real computer blowing up the photo: I have no clue. It’s an awesome photo. If it was taken at 7:15AM then the eclipsed moon is completely set and shouldn’t be adding any photons to the photo.
But that leaves the sun and that is rising way over to the left but you have all these great hues way over to the west. This reminds me of when I got totally lost while cross country skiing once. If I just headed south I would eventually hit train track then follow them out. So I put what I thought was the sun to the left and ahead of me because it was not quite noon and skied for two hours and came out in a town not to the south but to the north. The snow storm was causing a weird reflection of light opposite from the sun. Following that sent me in the opposite direction. I made it home by dinner but my dog was annoyed.
That may be what is happening here. That was a weird system that was coming up the coast so there might have been a gap between troughs of clouds that let the sun burst through to the west. Too bad it wasn’t happening today but New England weather always crushes the dreams of the amateur astronomer.
(Siri, when I say done I mean finished don’t write it down! paragraph return close parenthesis
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Thank you so much Paul for the response. That sounds very logical–it was a surprise to see the sky over Niles looking as it typically does in the late afternoon, not at 7:15am.
Yes, I can see why their dreams are crushed!
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Think you are both spot on with clouds sort of looked like this out way too but not rain! Dave & Kim
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