Don't forget everyone the total lunar eclipse tomorrow vening (3rd March) starts around 2130, totality at around 2240ish. I'm sure if it is cloudy most of you will use Celestia to simulate it at all your eclipse Parties!
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Lunar eclipse
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Re: Lunar eclipse
Colin_hutcheson wrote:I'm sure if it is cloudy most of you will use Celestia to simulate it at all your eclipse Parties!
lol. Not more than 2 minutes ago I was using Celestia to show my Aunt Candie what it will look like. Too bad it will probably be cloudy here, and we won't be able to see it.
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Re: Lunar eclipse
21:30 in what time zone???Colin_hutcheson wrote:starts around 2130, totality at around 2240ish.
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UTC I would imagine, if the time was given from Celestia. Simply set the time in Celestia to what he gave you, and put yourself on Earth's surface where you live and see if you can see the lunar eclipse. Or you can do what I do, and make your house in Anim8r, then use the LatLong [ x y z ] command line to place your house on Earth. Then all you have to do is select your house and Go To =D
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While there might still be a chance for some holes in the cloud cover in Hamburg tonight, have a look at the image I made for this evening around 21:25 UTC. The Moon is precisely in your back, while you can see the sun vanish behind Earth. You also can see the names of some big cities that modulo cloud coverage will be in a favorable location.
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Amazingly, it looks like its cleared up round here.
This lunar eclipse has got me thinking - since the red colour of the moon is caused because the light reaching it has passed through the Earth's atmosphere, would the same happen with the eclipse shadow of Titan on Saturn? Would the shadow of Titan appear reddish, and would this be noticeable when compared with the illuminated portions of the rest of the planet?
This lunar eclipse has got me thinking - since the red colour of the moon is caused because the light reaching it has passed through the Earth's atmosphere, would the same happen with the eclipse shadow of Titan on Saturn? Would the shadow of Titan appear reddish, and would this be noticeable when compared with the illuminated portions of the rest of the planet?
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Nice full moon the night before though!
Nice full moon the night before though!
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