Lunar Eclipse on Wednesday

[zavvy]

<b>Lunar Eclipse Wednesday to Have Easy Viewing Hours</b><br /><br />LINK<br /><br />Just in time for the Halloween season, the moon Wednesday will treat us to its most famous trick: changing from bright white to reddish as it passes deeply through Earth's shadow.<br /> <br />This will be the last total lunar eclipse until March 3, 2007, and the last eclipse that will be easily viewed throughout the entire continental U.S. until February 21, 2008. <br /><br />"For North America, this particular eclipse I refer to as the prime-time eclipse," said Fred Espenak, an eclipse expert at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "It's ideally suited for casual observing." <br /><br />The partial and total phases of the eclipse will be visible in the evening sky throughout most of the Americas. In the western third of the continental U.S., the moon will already be very faintly eclipsed when it rises. In Alaska the moon will already be fully eclipsed at moonrise. <br /><br />Europe and Africa also get a view of this eclipse, but at a less convenient time: the early hours of Thursday morning. <br /><br />A total eclipse of the moon occurs when the full moon passes through the inner portion of Earth's shadow, known as the umbra. The umbra blocks all direct sunlight from reaching the moon. The penumbra, or outer shadow, blocks some, but not all of the sun's light. <br /><br />Not until the night of February 20, 2008, will the entire population of the continental U.S. be able to step outside and catch an eyeful of an eclipse before crawling into bed for the night. <br /><br />In the U.S. the March 3, 2007, event will be visible from the eastern half of the nation while the August 28, 2007, eclipse is best viewed from the West during the wee hours of the morning, Espenak said. <br /><br />Eclipse <br /><br />Wednesday's eclipse gets underway in earnest at 9:14 p.m. eastern time, w

 

[Maddad]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll get my telescope out and watch it.

 

[alokmohan]

Tell me if it is visible in India.

 

[alokmohan]

Tell me whether one can see it in India.

 

[alokmohan]

Thanks.South east asia excluded.

 

[alokmohan]

I WAS EXPECTING SOME ENTRIES ON LUNAR ECLIPSE TODAY.to early?

 

[jindivik]

hopefully the weather will clear enough for me to get a glimpse of it this time...the last one, clouds came over right when it started, then disappeared right when it ended...bleh

 

[steve01]

I'd like to file an official complaint with Mother Nature, First I miss the Venus transit due to s%#!*y weather and tonight I can stare at a wonderful glowing region of . . . you guessed it CLOUD!!!

 

[Swampcat]

Totality!<br /><br />I thought I was going to miss this. It was cloudy earlier, but just as the moon came up the clouds headed west. I'm having a hard time watching the World Series because I'm running outside every few minutes to see the eclipse. <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /><br /><br />Good show either way. <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[zavvy]

'Twas a braw bricht moonlicht nicht tha' nicht..