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#1 2005-04-19 04:17:10

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Re: Lunar (Penumbral) Eclipse

*Our Moon will only "skim" the outer fringes of Earth's shadow.

http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/]Animation of event 

Nice.  That's being sponsored by spaceweather.com.

Penumbral eclipses are notoriously difficult to observe. Nevertheless, a subtle yet distinct shading should be visible across the northern half of the Moon during greatest eclipse, around 09:55 UT. For North Americans, that's Sunday morning at 2:55 a.m. PDT (5:55 a.m. EDT).

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/O … Additional information

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

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#2 2005-04-24 08:07:29

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Re: Lunar (Penumbral) Eclipse

*Thought this might be of interest:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050423.html]Eclipsed moon in infrared

Obtained September 1996 by a satellite which had an onboard infrared telescope called SPIRIT III.  The image was taken during a 70-minute totality.  The brightest spot is the crater Tycho.  Interesting to see the "distribution" of warmer and cooler lunar regions. 

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#3 2005-04-25 07:21:02

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Re: Lunar (Penumbral) Eclipse

*The eclipse occurred at a god-awful hour and being my weekend (getting extra rest), I didn't catch it.  Someone did and here's a nice photo of this partial eclipse:

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/24 … ll1.jpg]Mr. Matt Wastell of Brisbane, Australia

Being hosted at spaceweather.com.  They mention that the shadowing effect was so subtle that folks not in the know about this partial eclipse might not have noticed.

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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#4 2005-04-26 14:58:28

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Re: Lunar (Penumbral) Eclipse

http://www.spaceweather.com/eclipses/ga … .htm]Event gallery

*Gallery will be updated, if more photos are submitted.

--Cindy


We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...

--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)

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