Total or partial moon eclipse ?

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aircom

Total or partial moon eclipse ?

Post #1by aircom » 15.05.2003, 17:22

Hi,

I read everywhere that this eclipse will be total. But when displaying it in celestia, not all the moon surface disappears ...
I do a mistake ?

Thank you

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Post #2by ElPelado » 15.05.2003, 17:36

i have also noticed that bug(?)
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Post #3by erostosthen(w) » 15.05.2003, 18:35

i think it's an issue of haziness of earth's actual shadow and celestia rendering the shadow as a rigid circle. if you dload MB's lunar eclipse patch, you'll see how the shadow is just hazy enough to engulf the whole moon, and thus cause a total eclipse.


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