Question by ferrariguy1000: is there a possibility of having a solar eclipse in sanfrancisco?
I hear so many solar eclipses over Asia and south America, but is there one predicted in the near future over San Fransisco?
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Answer by Randy PLots of good info on NASA's eclipse web page.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
Here's the solar eclipse page:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html
And here's a few summary maps. 2001-2020.
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2001.GIF
2021-2040:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2021.GIF
2041-2060:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2041.GIF
Looks like there's an annular eclipse visible across a good chunk of northern California in May 2012, so San Francisco ought to have a decent view of that one. And a total eclipse over Oregon in August 2017.
In 2106 there's a total eclipse pretty much right over San Francisco or perhaps San Jose (I'm not 100% sure of the geography of California).
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2101.GIF
Is that soon enough?
I'm just hoping for one close enough to North America to make it feasible to travel to. I'm in the Eastern US and like you it seems like we never get them. It looks like the 2017 one is the one I should aim for.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
Q&A: is there a possibility of having a solar eclipse in sanfrancisco?
What do they mean when you can see planets during a total solar eclipse?
Question by AY0116: What do they mean when you can see planets during a total solar eclipse?
There is a total eclipse coming up in August for parts of Russia and China, there are other places as well but I don't know where. I was reading an article about how there will be four planets visible during the eclipse. What I want to know is, does the eclipse magnify these planets so you can view them with the naked eye or does it just expose the area of the planet in darkness long enough that you could view them through a telescope?
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Answer by Wild BillThe eclipse actually reduces the light pollution from the Sun to the Earth allowing us to see the brightest objects in the sky such as Venus, Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn. When the eclipse is over they will fade into the wild blue sky!
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Hurra Torpedo performing "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler
How did Helios affect the nature world?
Question by la luna: How did Helios affect the nature world?
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Answer by billrussell42need more detail:
Helios, a character in the anime Sailor Moon
Helio (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
Helios (Helios Eclipse character), from Helios Eclipse drawn by Kaoru and serialiized in Gempak.
Victor Helios, from Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein's alias
The Helio Sequence, an indie electronica/shoegazer band
Helio Alves (born São Paulo, 1966), jazz pianist and son of pianists
Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture
Helios, a former German motorcycle brand made by BMW
Helios AG, a former German electrical engineering company based in Cologne
Helio Aircraft Company, an aircraft manufacturing company
Helios (cinemas), a multiplex cinema operator in Poland
USS Helios (ARB-12), a World War II repair ship
Heliotropism, the diurnal motion of plant parts (flowers or leaves) in response to the direction of the sun
Helio Courier, a light C/STOL utility aircraft designed in 1949
Helios Prototype, a series of NASA solar- and fuel cell system-powered unmanned aircraft/planes
Helios Airways, former low-cost airline operating scheduled and charter flights between Cyprus and many European destinations
Helios Airways Flight 522, a Helios Airways Boeing 737-31S flight that crashed on August 14, 2005 into a mountain north of Marathon and Varnavas, Greece
HΞLIO, U.S. wireless carrier, launched May 2006, joint venture between SK Telecom (South Korea) and Earthlink
HeliOS, a Unix-like computer operating system
Helios, a boss in the videogame Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Helios, an AI in the computer game Deus Ex, the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs
Helios, a "persona" in the Playstation games Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment
Helios probes, deep space probes were launched in the mid 1970s by the Federal Republic of Germany and NASA
895 Helio, a minor planet orbiting the Sun
Hélios 1B and Helios 2A, French military satellites
Helios (propulsion system), a nuclear pulse propulsion system for spacecraft invented by Freeman Dyson, a precursor to his Project Orion
Helios, a wrestler for Chikara (professional wrestling)
FC Helios Kharkiv, a football (soccer) team from Ukraine
KK Helios Domžale, a basketball club from Slovenia.
Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver in the Indy Racing League series
Hélio Gracie, Co-founder of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
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Relive the Solar Eclipse Marathon! It was an unforgettable day which started with an incredible solar eclipse on Four Mile Beach. Runners got off to a flying start and tackled the infamous Bump Track, ran through sugar cane fields and dense tropical vegetation before racing to the finish at Rex Park.
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