Question by havish: How widespread across the globe is an eclipse?
I am working on a project, and am wondering how visible a given solar eclipse would be on a global level.
I uploaded an image of a map with a particular eclipse that occurred (I circled it in red), but I need to know in which parts of the world the eclipse would be visible in.
Thank you!
http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/6750/seatlas0719ra3.gif
Best answer:
Answer by bikenbeer2000The map you uploaded shows tracks of total and annular eclipses, but in general, the partial phase would be visible over a much wider area. An illustration is provided by the equivalent map for eclipses from 2001 to 2020:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEatlas/SEatlas3/SEatlas2001.GIF compared with the map showing the visibility of partial and total phases for the eclipse of August 1st 2008:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEmono/TSE2008/TSE2008iau/TSE2008-fig01.GIF
Your eclipse goes back quite a long way (about 2700 years!) so I seriously doubt whether a partial phase map will be available on the Internet. One solution might be to look for a more recent eclipse with a similar track or I could run my planetarium program Starry Night for the year -712. I'll look into both these options and get back to you.
Additional notes:
OK the Starry Night planetarium program shows the region of partial eclipse as follows:
Draw a line upwards from the bottom of the map at 10 degrees east up to 50 degrees south. Then draw a line upwards and to the right across the Indian Ocean, keeping parallel with the annular track and passing below South Africa, Madagascar and Sri Lanka and crossing just above the Malaysian peninsula and Cambodia. The line then folllows the track of the -0719 Feb 22 eclipse until 160 degrees east. From there, draw a line straight down to the bottom, passing between Australia and New Zealand.
The Starry Night program doesn't actually show a map, but gives a 'real time' view of the progress of the eclipse across the earth, so I can't convey a map to you and this explanation will have to do - long-winded though it may be.
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
How widespread across the globe is an eclipse?
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
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What are some objects that symbolize the book eclipse?
Question by krystal: What are some objects that symbolize the book eclipse?
i already have vampire teeth, a fork, the seattle space needle, a bat, a wolf
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Answer by ~Football Funkie~a ribbion like the one on the cover- symbolizes her desicion
beach wood- when jacob and bella "reunited" at the beach in twilight or their place that they went to together
some kind of indian symbolization- jacob and his family
maybe a toy car (edwards car type) or a truck like bella's (the way u picture it in your head)
a toy motercyle or a picture of one- to remeber the motorcycles in new moon
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How do I get a "sun flare"effect on a point and shoot digital camera....?
Question by Nelle: How do I get a "sun flare"effect on a point and shoot digital camera....?
...ie:setting sun through a tree.
Camera does have TV, M, AV and other special settings that I have used
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Answer by SharleneFlare is a light source bouncing in the elements inside a lens. I doubt P&S's have many if any lens elements inside so I am not sure it would be possible. If you can on this particular camera, try setting the aperture for a smaller setting, something like f/10 or smaller.
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