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Rare total lunar eclipse to occur Saturday
Sky gazers in North America will be treated to the rare sight of a full crimson moon in the wee hours of Saturday morning due to a total lunar eclipse.
The lunar spectacle will appear in the sky on Dec. 10, at 6:06 a.m. Pacific Time and remain visible for 51 minutes. The phenomenon, not expected to be witnessed again until 2014, will be seen in its entirety from Alaska, Hawaii, Australia and parts of Asia.
Those on the west coast of the United States and Canada will be able to witness the early stages of the total eclipse just before dawn.
According to Sky & Telescope magazine, "From roughly Arizona to the Dakotas, the moon sets while it's still totally eclipsed. In the Central time zone the moon sets while still only partially eclipsed, before the total stage even begins. And those farther east miss out completely."
A phenomenon not expected to be witnessed again until 2014, will be visible in its entirety from Alaska, Hawaii, Australia and parts Asia.
The phases of the total lunar eclipse:- A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth, Sun and Moon all align. The Moon passes behind the Earth so that Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon.
The entire process is set to begin at 4:46 a.m. PT, when the moon first enters the umbra, the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow.
Over the next couple of hours the Earth’s shadow will creep across the moon’s surface, until it is fully covered.
Totality will start at 6:05 a.m. and end at 6:57 am, while the final traces of the Earth’s shadow will pass at 8:15 am after the moon has sunk below the horizon.
At the height of the eclipse, as the moon moves deeper into Earth's shadow, the indirect sunlight passing through Earth's atmosphere will give it a spectacular red or orange hue.
"I expect this eclipse to be bright orange, or even copper-colored, with a possible hint of turquoise at the edge," Atmospheric scientist Richard Keen of the University of Colorado told NASA.
The ‘selenelion’ effect:- During this celestial event, people in North America can get to experience the rare “selenelion” when the sun and the moon are seen together in an eclipse.
Though the sun and moon are in a perfect 180-degree line with Earth during a lunar eclipse, an illusion called atmospheric refraction causes astronomical objects to appear higher in the sky than they are in reality. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth, Sun and Moon all align. The Moon passes behind the Earth so that Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon.
"This effect actually lengthens the amount of daylight for several minutes or more each day; we end up seeing the sun for a few minutes in the morning before it has actually risen and for a few extra minutes in the evening after it actually already has set," reports Space.com.
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Polls: Do you believe in the 2012 possible big catastrophe?
Question by Victor W: Polls: Do you believe in the 2012 possible big catastrophe?
http://www.free-minds.org/articles/history/2012.htm
Disclaimer: This article represents the personal view of the author and is being shared with readers for the sake of stimulating thought.
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While watching a recent History channel documentary (part-1, part-2) regarding the Mayan calendar and its end date of December 21st 2012, I could not help but draw parallels with certain prophetic pronouncements contained within the Qur’an of things yet to come.
Mayan Calendar
The Mayan’s of South America were perhaps one of the most advanced civilizations when it came to astronomy and the mapping of the celestial movement of the stars and our planet. In-fact, the Mayan calendar is so accurate that it has been able to predict lunar and solar eclipses thousands of years in advance based on a complex interlocking system involving lunar-solar-and star movements.
Interestingly enough, the Mayan calendar comes to an end on December 21st 2012 (the day of winter solstice). Now, while some people are speculating that this may mark the end of the world, others are speculating more reasonably that it will mark the end of the current sun-earth-galaxy synchronization and that a new synchronization will begin.
I find this second interpretation to be more logical, especially when we consider that God has told us that our sun is not stationary, but is constantly moving towards a determined point and is by default taking us with it:
36:38 And the sun runs to a specific destination, such is the design of the Noble, the Knowledgeable.
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On May 20, 2012, an annular solar eclipse will pass over the western United States. This video is an animated map showing the path of the eclipse over Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas. If you are within this pass, you will see the moon slide fully in front of the sun. During an annular solar eclipse, the moon's disk is just smaller than the sun and is sometimes called a "Ring of Fire" eclipse. It will be a spectacular sight, but you must use either solar filters or a projection system to watch it safely. More maps of this eclipse are available at eclipse-maps.com
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How did ancient civilizations interpret moon or sun eclipses? did they think God is eating the sun?
by Epacris
Question by : How did ancient civilizations interpret moon or sun eclipses? did they think God is eating the sun?
@whyshoulditell you : excellent answer, its just that Greek astronomer Aristotle is historically known to have studied eclipses more than any Indian astronomer.
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Answer by MR.GENIUSits really good question
it different between the civilizations,,,many civilizations explained it as demons hid the sun cuz as you know the sun is very important for the humans and the living things so to get rid of the “demon” that was consuming their sun was to unite and make as much noise as possible to scare it away.
in ancient China they believed that a dragon was devouring the sun.
in ancient Greece believed that an eclipse was a sign of angry gods, therefore it was thought of as a bad omen.
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DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN Without proper equipment: Safe and easy to make Sun Viewer: www.space.com An annular solar eclipse will grace the western part of the United States in May. BEWARE - Do not look directly at this eclipse with out a proper filter! Annular eclipses don't totally block out the Sun and are thus dangerous.
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Beijing time June 23 morning news, regulatory documents show, Google co-founder Sergey, the ji (Sergey Brin and Larry Page) (brief benchwarmer) earlier this month of Google stock sell-off, converted to about $ 71.5 million.Sergey on June 7,, selling 83334 shares Google stock, the transaction price to $ 524.23 in 519.65, between a profit of 43.466429 million dollars.Respectively for June 13 and 15, Google stock sell-off two times, scale for 27778 shares. The first market price in 503.25 to $ 506.92, $ 14.028118 million; between profit The second market price in between $ 501.25 to 507.64, a profit of 14.001611 million dollars.Beijing time on the afternoon of May 25, news, according to the federal aviation administration (hereinafter referred to as "the FAA") flight records show that last summer, Google two founders Larry Page (brief) and plug benchwarmer auspicious blanchett Sergey Brin) had (Lin on private plane flying from the continental United States more than eight hours, to the south Pacific Tahiti watch total solar eclipse was visible wonders.According to a federal government approved by the airline management regulations, private plane flying route general not to public, but the Wall Street journal, according to the freedom of information law, won the FAA atc system records of 2007 years to 2010 years each a private jet flight data, and then create a private plane tracking database. Through this database, readers can understand the past four years of thousands of aircraft flying route, sometimes even know these aircraft master information.The Wall Street journal on every flight its estimate of the cost of the list, including fuel, but do not include buying aircraft, to the plane insurance, and the cost of the flight attendant. Some private aircraft owners obviously for the aircraft's history may be made public not worried about that. The United States 0.1 billion millionaire, NBA teams Dallas mavericks owner Mark Cuban (Mark Cuban) said: "I do have a plane, I buy the plane is to use, what's so strange about that?"FAA flight records show that, under the Cuban Radical has an airplane company Gulf Stream G 550 aircraft often flew to Los Angeles, New York, Las Vegas, etc. The flight data show that private plane flying route will be as seasonal change. Every year during the winter, the most popular holiday resorts of welcome private plane is Florida, palm beach rush hour is in each February President anniversary of the weekend, where the average, there are 119 private jet to fly to palm beach in the weekend.With the end of winter, palm beach's busy scene no longer exists, private plane from New York to Massachusetts and start the Kentucky horse was, an island and vineyard island, and in the rush hour is each
Where to find July 2009 SOLAR ECLIPSE VIDEOS?
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Question by maman: Where to find July 2009 SOLAR ECLIPSE VIDEOS?
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Answer by mild manneredFor many in other parts of the world where this event is not visible, live stream of the solar eclipse or at least a video replay will have to do. Find the videos here:
http://www.inewscatcher.com/2009/07/total-solar-eclipse-videos-july-22-2009.html
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Global Eclipse and Human Eclipse
by V.H.S.
Global Eclipse and Human Eclipse
It was an ironical event of last decade, when some parts of earth were said to had been totally eclipsed from the lively light of "Sun ". People had lit house lights in the daytime. Every channel of the world started commenting second by second movements of the so-called eclipse. The leading magazines highlighted their covering pages with this unforgettable event and published the dark photos of the Sun. all were called it the "Solar eclipse".But "Wattayo" one of my dearest fellows was crying on such a non-sense act, which was being done by our media and even by learned scientists. He said:" this is purely agony with the sun. I am going to protest against this worst usage of the fact". I told him " My dear Wattayo what the hell is going with you, why are you crying, what do you want?". " What I want?" he replied in very harsh tone "Do you call it a justice with the Sun? I will sue a petition against all such illiterate scientists". On my earnest request he clarified his philosophy about the eclipse.He said the Sun is a luminous body of the sky. It always emits light and heat where as the moon, earth and other planets in the sky are non-luminous bodies. They do not emit light but reflect the Sunrays. According to his philosophy the lunar eclipse is a Right term because the earth comes in between the Sun and moon. There are two kinds of lunar eclipse one the chronic eclipse and the other one is acute eclipse. We always watch the chronic eclipse. But acute eclipse Happens rarely, to which we call a lunar eclipse. But in case of Sun! That term is a greatest fallacy; actually it is a global eclipse, the eclipse of earth. Because the earth is not receiving Sun Light, now moon stands between Sun & Earth, like as earth comes between them. And this game goes on year by year.We are wrong because we blame on the Sun. this is misusage of words. Still we have not understood the philosophy of eclipse. Although it is very simple but if we want. Other wise this non-sense custom is going on and will be going on... We understand too that, there are two objects, is which one is sender and second is receiver. One is giving you and you are getting. Right now if one comes between you and your giver, the eclipse starts right on that time. Then you can't receive properly that thing which you're getting. What you are receiving that's another matter may be its money or mercy, thing or "Nothing" knowledge or wisdom etc, etc. I have read in "Quran", the holy Book of Islam. Abraham was instructed by God, to sacrifice his most beloved thing. Firstly Abraham thought about his lovely camels but God refused it and said " The most beloved!" and that beloved was his son, which he begot