![]() ![]() The researchers discovered that Japanese scribes made a note of lunar eclipses, with Fujiwara no Teika writing about an unprecedented dark eclipse witnessed on December 2, 1229.’ The older people had never seen it like this before, with the location of the Moon’s disc not visible, as if it had vanished during the eclipse. Because we know the precise dates of the eclipses, we can use the sightings to narrow down when the eruptions must have occurred.” The study’s lead author, Sébastien Guillet, senior research associate at the UNIGE Institute for environmental sciences, said, “I was listening to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon album when I realized that the darkest lunar eclipses all occurred within a year or so of major volcanic eruptions. Five of these reports also stated that the Moon was unusually black. They discovered that the chroniclers had faithfully documented 51 of the 64 lunar eclipses in Europe between 11. The monks were particularly attentive to the Moon’s coloration, recalling the Book of Revelation, a vision of the end times that speaks of a blood-red moon. The celestial phenomena that could foretell such disasters were equally notable. The actions of kings and popes, as well as major battles, natural disasters, and famines, were documented and described by medieval chroniclers. ![]() However, after a large volcanic eruption, there can be so much dust in the stratosphere that the eclipsed moon almost vanishes. Because the Moon is still bathed in sunlight and twisted around the Earth by its atmosphere, it is usually visible as a reddish orb. Total lunar eclipses occur when the Moon moves directly into the shadow of the Earth. The researchers searched hundreds of annals and chronicle from Europe and the Middle East for references to total lunar eclipses and their coloration. ![]()
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