Lunar eclipse

Docley · Post #1by **Docley** » 04.05.2004, 19:32

Now if I look out from my window, I can't see the moon. But the moon is bright in the Celestia...

Post #2by **granthutchison** » 04.05.2004, 20:04

Do you have eclipse shadows turned on? I've got a nice Celestia eclipse in progress.

Grant

ElPelado · Post #3by **ElPelado** » 05.05.2004, 09:44

I saw the ecplise from my window using binoculars and my telescope. Very Very Nice!!! It was my first eclipse I saw since I own the telescope(there was an other one, but it was cloudy

). But yesterday was a wonderful day!
BTW: in celestia the shadow is quite unreal... to see somethign similar to what I was seeing i had to put light level to medium...

maxim · Post #4by **maxim** » 05.05.2004, 10:48

I had a discussion on this, and my opinion was that sunlight is bend by earth gravity and atmosphere so that there is a kind of (reduced) indirect illumination of the moon during eclipses.

I haven'd ever seen how a total eclipse sun corona looks like from a moon viewpoint.

maxim