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on new years eve, the earth will float almost directly between the sun and the moon, causing a partial lunar eclipse. the greatest eclipse occurs at 19:23 UT, when the edge of the moon passes thru the earth's shadow. this eclipse will be visible to people in europe, africa, asia, india, and some of australia - too bad americas! but you will have this view during the first few nights of 2010, as the moon passes close by mars on january 2nd!
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the above map comes from sky and telescope, who state that "the Moon is plotted for North America; in Europe, move each Moon symbol a quarter for the way toward the one for the previous date."
4 comments:
"on new years eve, the sun will float almost directly between the sun and the moon" thats gonna be a cool trick :D
http://scienceray.com/astronomy/lunar-eclipse-new-year%e2%80%99s-eve-2009/
This will give you more of the science of lunar eclipses
the science was never in question, I was being a tad cheeky (ok a lot) pointing out that the sun would have problems placing itself between itself and the moon. I could have just pointed out that earth had been misspelt as sun. That'll teach me to try and be smart.
i must have read that sentence 10 times before i realized something was wrong. proofreading fail.
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