Lunar oddity shows up in night sky

• Published date: 08 April 2024
• Author: OPINION Dave Murdoch■ Dave Murdoch is a part-time photojournalist based in Dannevirke. For the past 11 years he has covered any community story telling good news about the district.
• Publication title: Bush Telegraph

Was it a penumbra or just an illusion? Google defines a penumbra in three ways

• a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light;

• a shaded region surrounding the dark central portion of a sunspot; and

• a surrounding or adjoining region in which something exists in a lesser degree: fringe.

It could have been any one of these or something else, but the...