On Thu 2018-08-30T12:29:30+0200 Philip Paeps hath writ:
It may be worth checking whether the individual documenting the lunar eclipse didn't just copy the rubric from the previous eclipse.
A better check would be to find an official timetable for a recent solar eclipse in Mozambique. The times in that table would say whether it was produced using the actually different contact times in each city or whether the contact times for one city were incorrectly shifted according to the longitude of other cities.
Arguably, using LMT to document celestial observations makes more sense than using civil time. Not being influenced by politics, it makes observations decades or centuries apart easier to correlate.
In the case of Mozambique there is no such astronomical observatory. Every clock would be set (if even that) to some external source of time. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m