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PHOTOS COURTESY RICK NOWELL/COLLEGE OF THE ROCKIES
A lunar eclipse turned the moon red in the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 15. A telescope at the College of the Rockies captured the eclipse in pictures as it progressed from midnight until 3:50 a.m. Top left and then clockwise: The earth’s shadow crosses and eclipses the moon, causing it to turn red. Centre: The “blood moon” at its height. Top row, second from right, and then clockwise: The earth’s shadow passes, and the moon returns to normal “full” state. S A L LY M AC D O N A L D Townsman Staff
Cranbrook and Kimberley were treated to a spectacular sky show overnight between Monday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 15 when a “blood moon” graced the spring sky. The moon turned red for about one hour and 18 minutes during the full lunar eclipse, when the moon, Earth and sun were completely lined up. The reflection of the sun on Earth cast a red-orange glow on the moon as it was shielded from the sun’s direct light.
To the moon and back A lunar eclipse turned the full moon red for just over an hour overnight on the morning of Tuesday, April 15
Rick Nowell, an astronomer at the College of the Rockies in Cranbrook, captured the eclipse using the college’s telescope, the Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain, with an 11-inch primary mirror. “It’s meant for higher magnifications, so I had to attach a focal reducer to just barely fit all the moon in the
picture,” said Nowell. In Cranbrook, the eclipse began at about 11 p.m. when the full moon was still visible to the south. Mars was closest to Earth on Monday also, so it was very bright in the sky nearby, Nowell said. “The moon moved slowly easterly in the sky, and entered the Earth’s shadow at
midnight. The black part of the shadow cut a curved line into the moon’s edge and gradually crept along for an hour, until the last bright edge narrowed and went dark at 1 a.m.,” said Nowell. “Unfortunately, a thin haze to the south started to cover the moon, and a lot of the photos became fuzzy after this. The dim orangey
moon faded in and out behind clouds, but the camera was able to compensate somewhat.” While Earth was completely obscuring the sun, the sunlight passing through the Earth’s atmosphere made the moon glow a reddish orange, Nowell went on. “It took about three hours for the moon to move
through the Earth’s shadow. In the photos you can see that the moon was not evenly illuminated, since its orbit was a bit north of (above) the shadow cone.” The moon came out of the shadows at about 2:30 a.m., Nowell said, and it was back to a normal full moon at about 3:50 a.m. “If you missed this one, the next lunar eclipse is on October 8, 2014,” he added. “This year we get to see a solar eclipse too: There will be a partial solar eclipse in Cranbrook on October 23 at 3:45 p.m.”
Council says no to car wash; turns down rezoning request
In a 4-3 decision, Council turns down car wash C AROLYN GR ANT Bulletin Editor
After considerable discussion, a public hearing and staff reports, Kimberley City Council has decided that they will not proceed with a zoning change to allow a car wash to be built on Marsden Street.
The lot in question is just to the north west side of the Marsden Street bridge, across the creek and a small road from the Baptist Church. While the lot is already zoned commercial, a car wash was not allowed under the current zoning, so the proponent applied for a change. Council has decided that a car wash is not appropriate in the mostly residential neighbourhood, though not without a lot of discussion. Council was presented
with a staff report from the planning department offering three options. 1; refuse to proceed with the bylaw, 2; defer pending submission of further information or 3; approve it. The report recommended that Council give second and third readings and adoption to the zoning change. However, Council was not prepared to do so. Coun. Albert Hoglund led off by saying he would vote against the rezoning. He said he was disap-
pointed in the staff report because it failed to mention a petition that had been brought forward by residents. “In my mind, enough residents of that area showed they didn’t want the lot rezoned,” he said. Coun. Darryl Oakley also said he wouldn’t support it. He said he had been down to the neighbourhood several times and felt that the neighbours were comfortable with the current commercial zoning.
Coun. Jack Ratcliffe said he would support it. “There have been so many cases in the past where what was forecast to happen didn’t happen,” he said, pointing out that years ago when the Bauernhaus Restaurant was seeking a development permit neighbourhood residents had been greatly concerned. “People were against it,” he said. “If we’d gone with that, the Bauernhaus wouldn’t be there. Then there was a daycare on St. Mary
Avenue that the neighbours didn’t want. Again, we went ahead and it worked fine. The neighbours later came back to Council and apologized for causing a fuss. That’s the only time I’ve seen that in my 29 years on Council.” Coun. Don McCormick also said he’d support it. He said he felt there were enough regulations in place that would make sure the car wash was not a detriment. See COUNCIL Page 4