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  Selenelion & other names for art & astronomyJul 19, 2014 8:39 AM PDT | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:I came across the coolest word the other day: "selenelion." I stumbled into it on Wikipedia, where it is explained as the name for the occasion "when both the Sun and the eclipsed Moon can be observed at the same time. This can only happen just before sunset or just after sunrise, and both bodies will appear just above the horizon at nearly opposite points in the sky. This arrangement has led to the phenomenon being referred to as a horizontal eclipse. There are typically a number of high ridges undergoing sunrise or sunset that can see it. Indeed, the reddened light that reaches the Moon comes from all the simultaneous sunrises and sunsets on the Earth. Although the Moon is in the Earth’s umbra, the Sun and the eclipsed Moon can both be seen at the same time because the refraction of light through the Earth’s atmosphere causes each of them to appear higher in the sky than their true geometric position."
 
"Selenelion" probably shares something of the same root as the name of our anti-heroine, which I got from the name of the Greek goddess of the Moon, Selene. (Huh, and Google tells me that an actress on a popular show that's appeared since A* began also has the name Selenis, golly.) I came across it when I was trying to name the watercolor painting I had made for page 38, because I figure I should give them a name when I put them up for auction on eBay, which I always do just before the A* page using them appears on this site. The page 38 painting looked like this
 
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and I thought hm well Selenis is kind of eclipsing the disc of light cast by the round window at the end of the hall she's facing, which is almost like a moon, the basis of her name. I wonder if there's a cool name for a lunar eclipse or something... And that got me to looking up "lunar eclipse" on Wikipedia, which happens to be the same page that contains "selenelion," and obviously I was going to use that. : )
 
Not at all coincidentally, my "Selenelion"-named artwork is back on sale on eBay, or more specifically, up for auction on eBay; as I mentioned a couple days ago, I initially put the painting, and the two done for the two A* pages after it, up on eBay as "Buy It Now" listings, but nobody liked them that way (not even eBay : P), so a few days ago I took those down and put the art up as good ol' regular auctions, like I've been doing with each day's A* page artwork for ages now. So, yep, auctions starting at $9.99 for those paintings—oh, page 39's auction and secret artwork name is here, and page 40's auction and wacky name is here, and they look something like (although in higher resolution in the auction listings) this
 
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and this
 
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, respectively.
 
And that's prrrrrobably the last time I'll plug these re-listed art listings, so never fear (the link to a new A* page's art auction, which usually runs just for a week after it first appears as the newest comic page on this site, can always be found as the blue and gold text at the comic image's lower left-hand corner)! Next week we'll talk about...other stuff?
 
 
 
 
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