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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:05 am
If you are in North/South America, Europe, or Africa, on Wednesday, Feb 20th night / Thursday Feb 21st morning, you can watch a total lunar eclipse.
Quote: A Lunar Eclipse takes place at a Full Moon when the Moon moves into the shadow of the Earth cast by the Sun. This takes place at the same instant for all observers, but the LOCAL time on the clock depends on your time zone! In North America (Canada & the US), the Total Eclipse takes place during: Newfoundland ~ 11:30 p.m. - 12:21 a.m. Atlantic ~ 11:00 - 11:51 p.m. Eastern ~ 10:00 - 10:51 p.m. Central ~ 9:00 - 9:51 p.m. Mountain ~ 8:00 - 8:51 p.m. Pacific ~ 7:00 - 7:51 p.m.
If you're elsewhere, it is taking place at 3:00 a.m. - 3:51 a.m GMT/UTC
Calculate from there.
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:06 pm
so does the moon move in front of the sun? Or behind the sun?
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Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:00 pm
Neither.
Sun -> Earth -> Moon.
Direct line. Thus, the moon is in Earth's shadow.
&that makes it safe to look at directly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 1:59 am
It will start right when I get off work tonight. I'll see it on the way home.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:53 am
ChyaneLlree It will start right when I get off work tonight. I'll see it on the way home. Tomorrow night. Wednesday.
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:52 pm
KazeRin Neither.
Sun -> Earth -> Moon.
Direct line. Thus, the moon is in Earth's shadow.
&that makes it safe to look at directly.
<3 i might be having a really dumb moment here >.< but how does that make it a total lunar eclipse? Doesnt that just make it night on one side of the world, and day on the other? And isnt the moon always safe to look at directly? xp
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Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:52 pm
Always safe to look at the moon directly. Just, Solar eclipses are all "OMG DON'T LOOK!" so.. clarifying that it's not the bad type of eclipse.
It's a total lunar eclipse because it's a direct line. Usually the moon is off to one side or the other, and not on the exact opposite side of Earth from the Sun.
The phases of the moon are all, in a way, eclipses. They just occur over 28 days instead of an hour.
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Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:28 am
ooo cool thanks for that mrgreen now i get it xp
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:57 am
KazeRin ChyaneLlree It will start right when I get off work tonight. I'll see it on the way home. Tomorrow night. Wednesday.
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Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:43 pm
Aww ;__;
It wasn't a total eclipse, anyway -__- there was a tiny sliver of moon left and then it started shifting and getting bigger. Froze my butt for an hour just for that.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:36 pm
KazeRin Aww ;__;
It wasn't a total eclipse, anyway -__- there was a tiny sliver of moon left and then it started shifting and getting bigger. Froze my butt for an hour just for that.
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It was freezing. >.<
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:50 am
I didn't hear about it until too late. And it was cloudy anyway.
But I saw one 2 or 3 years ago. Yayness.
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