Re: No moon, solar eclipse

Your observation similar to mine.

I was not really looking for the eclipse but was more interested in seeing the moon while it was near (an hour or so before/after) to being in line with the sun, but never saw it. Ive seen the moon before high in the sky during day time but usually in mid-morning and enough out of line with sun to be visible to me ..... is there any truth to the moon being visible to us because its reflecting sunlight? How much reflection towards earth is there when the moon is fully in line between us and sun?

At least in theory, what to us is referred to as the (back) "dark side of the moon" would have been the lit side most fully illuminated by sunlight at the peak of the eclipse ..... and the side facing earth was actually the unlit "dark side". Tweet