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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Thursday, February 21, 2013
What do they mean when you can see planets during a total solar eclipse?
When will the next solar eclipse be observable from central florida?
Question by alan g: When will the next solar eclipse be observable from central florida?
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Answer by tham153The eclipse of October 23, 2014 will be visible in central Florida in the late afternoon as a partial eclipse. Aug 21, 2017 is partial in Florida but the path of totality goes through Georgia.
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A video taken by TQ friend and traveler Bob Stephens on the 2012 Australia Total Solar Eclipse Tour! "A group of eclipse chasers on the TravelQuest International trip viewed the eclipse from Wetherby Station on the Atherton Tableland in Queensland, Australia. The group left the Thala Beach Lodge at 3:30 AM on Eclipse Day to increase its chances of seeing the eclipse. Forecasts called for coastal clouds, which impacted Carines and Port Douglas. Clouds usually stopped along the coastal ridge. Although clouds did somewhat get over the ridge, and provided quite a scare just minutes before 2nd Contact, the group of nearly 200 only had to contend with some light cirrus clouds during totality." -Bob Stephens
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
How do I know what time the Lunar Eclipse will take place?
Question by Rain Dancer: How do I know what time the Lunar Eclipse will take place?
Tonight is the lunar eclipse and I would like to see it, but I cant find anything that will give me a time to shoot for. Thanks to anyone who can help!
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Answer by Dr BobThere will be nothing to see. It's such a minor penumbral eclipse that the moon will simply look like an ordinary full moon.
Here are the times:
7:04:17 PM EDT eclipse begins
8:39:10 PM EDT maximum eclipse
10:14:09 PM EDT eclipse ends
The moon will be up for much of the eclipse on the east coast of the US; on the west coast, however, the moon will be below the horizon during the eclipse.
If you had precise measuring equipment, you might be able to detect a slight gradation of brightness, but you won't see anything with your naked eye.
Here's the NASA information for this eclipse:
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2009Aug06N.pdf
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