bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
"An eclipse appears total only while you're directly in the moon's shadow. Normally the darkness lasts only a few minutes." [via Futility Closet and Milena]
Learning Curve on the Ecliptic (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
From a list of events which have occurred on 27 September through the years, I noticed that the stage musical "Hair" opened its London run on 27 September 1968 . There had been a total solar eclipse five days before, at 29 Virgo . During the eclipse, and the period between the eclipse and the show's opening, Uranus (ruler of Aquarius) lay at 29 Virgo the degree hit by the eclipse. As the show's best...
V's spot (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Wow. Sometimes, I look at these pictures and composites and marvel at the photographer's skill and passion..... Found, at APOD for 20 Sept08.... a composite of the solar eclipse that occured on 1 Aug... Too cool!
Rage on Omnipotent (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Stunning photo derived from 55 different frames. I wish I knew how to create this kind of thing, and had the opportunity to do so.
kalebeul (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
Tully, Letters written during a ten years’ residence at the court of Tripoli (1819): June 12 1788 To you, my dear friend, who are always alive to the beauties and effects of nature, I cannot omit describing what an extraordinary impression an eclipse makes on the uninformed part of the inhabitants of Barbary. Of this we had [...]
Open Culture (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
“The NASA STEREO spacecraft sees the disk of the Moon pass in front of the Sun in a view never seen before by human eyes.” For more videos, see The Bad Astronomy channel on YouTube, which we’ve added to our collection: Intelligent Life at YouTube: 70 Educational Video Collections. ShareThis
Under the Acacias (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
Just a random selection of photos from the last few weeks Lunar eclipse...
Power Line Forum (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
For any Dead-heads here, there’s a new 2 CD/1 DVD set coming out of the famous shows the Dead did in 1978 in Egypt-the DVD includes 13 songs from the third and final show, which was done during a total lunar eclipse. If you pre-order thru the Dead.com website you will also get a bonus disc with 8 additional unreleased tracks from the Egypt shows. More info here (read the reader responses, they’re a...
The Science Creative Quarterly (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The world is going to end on December 21st 2012. How do I know this? Because the Mayans said so and the Mayans pretty much knew it all; these are people that calculated the length of a year to a thousandth decimal place, predicted all future lunar and solar eclipses and invented gravity*. [...]
Astroblog (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Tony Travaglia of Otago, New Zealand, was holidaying in Western Australia during the Lunar eclipse of 17 August. He's back now, and has sent these lovely images of the eclipse. Tony saw the eclipse from Walan WA and wrote that he felth that the the "orange moon" was not quite up to his usual standard as it was hand held resting upon the roof of a car with no tripod. Heck, the colours are beautiful,...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Kuwait, Aug 24 (IANS) The Islamic holy month of Ramadan will start Sep 1, according to a leading Kuwaiti astronomer.Mona Ahmed Anbar, director of astronomy and space sciences at the Kuwait Science Club, said in a statement that the solar eclipse that occurred in the month of Shabaan (the month preceding Ramadan in the Islamic [...]
DARE TO THINK (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
This is a very good aproximation of what I've been staring at for a few hours now, it being almost 5 a.m. EST. A partial lunar eclipse always follows a full moon. seen from my window The full moon of last weekend was like no other for me, as I got to see it over the Atlantic, close to the water's horizon, from the shore area of Jersey. This is very much what we saw, without the cloud cover, and when...
ladelentes (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
lunar eclipse Originally uploaded by ladelentes . this is the las time that i see a lunar eclipse. the last time i stand in a veranda, smoking a cigarette. the last time i smell jasmine and opportunity, an early spring night in the south. the last time i do this. and that. and the other. the first and the last time for everything and something else.
http://www.az10.com/rss.xml (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The August 2008 lunar eclipse - A wonderful partial lunar eclipse Some beautiful pictures of the partial lunar eclipse that took place on August 16, 2008. The next total lunar eclipse will occur on December 21, 2010. ...
thomasfortenberry.net (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
China’s lunar satellite survives eclipse China’s first lunar satellite, which has been orbiting around the moon for nearly nine months, has withstood the test of a solar eclipse that cut its solar energy supply, state media reported Monday. Scientists altered the Chang’e 1’s orbit and temporarily turned off some functions before losing contact with the satellite for [...]
