MD3PAD 622-624

[Toby G Levy]

Pynchon can always claim that Wicks got the date wrong!

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On  Fri, 25 Aug 2006 Otto wrote

 
from Douglas Lannark:

MD3PAD 622-624
Whether of importance or not, just for the record: Somehow Pynchon
astrologically either was ill-advised or he simply mixed up and
switched the astronomical data . . . there was no lunar eclipse (a red
Moon) on August 5, 1766 but rather an annular solar eclipse (black
Sun) at 12:45 PM local time visible along most of the MD line.

A partial lunar eclipse visible along most of the MD Line occurred on
Wednesday August 20, 1766 at 02:00 AM local time. One year later there
was another lunar eclipse on Sunday August 9, 1767 culminating at
19:09 local time or shortly after sunset with a "red moon" rising.
Through a lunar opposition to animalistic Mars in conjunction with the
Sun certain inclinations for "kastoranthopy" can be read into the
constellations.
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