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<blockquote data-quote="Tuur" data-source="post: 77501686" data-attributes="member: 445885"><p>Have started watching it. Right of the bat there's a mistake: Kepler placed Herod the Great's death in 4 BC because he died the same year he executed those who torn down an image placed at the gates to the temple, and there was a lunar eclipse on the night after the execution (Josephus states the moon turned to blood). The problem isn't due to a typo, it's due to a candidate lunar eclipse in 4 BC being a partial eclipse, and that's not likely to give the red moon effect. However, there is a better candidate in 1 BC..</p><p></p><p>Here's a handy reference: <a href="https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE-0099-0000.html" target="_blank">Catalog of Lunar Eclipses: -0099 to 0000</a> . Keep in mind that in history there was no year zero, so 1 BC is the year 0 in the tables, and 4 BC is the year -3.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tuur, post: 77501686, member: 445885"] Have started watching it. Right of the bat there's a mistake: Kepler placed Herod the Great's death in 4 BC because he died the same year he executed those who torn down an image placed at the gates to the temple, and there was a lunar eclipse on the night after the execution (Josephus states the moon turned to blood). The problem isn't due to a typo, it's due to a candidate lunar eclipse in 4 BC being a partial eclipse, and that's not likely to give the red moon effect. However, there is a better candidate in 1 BC.. Here's a handy reference: [URL="https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEcat5/LE-0099-0000.html"]Catalog of Lunar Eclipses: -0099 to 0000[/URL] . Keep in mind that in history there was no year zero, so 1 BC is the year 0 in the tables, and 4 BC is the year -3. [/QUOTE]
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