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pbholmes
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Location: Dalgety Bay
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 Posted: Jan 21 19:59 Post subject: Lunar Eclipses 2008 |
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Two lunar eclipses are predicted for 2008.
First, there's a total lunar eclipse on February 21st, which will be easily visible from here (weather permitting).
The second is a partial lunar eclipse on August 16th, just barely visible from here.
February 21st, Total
Visibility map
August 16th, Partial
Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC
Eclipse maps courtesy of Fred Espenak - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
For more information on solar and lunar eclipses, see Fred Espenak's Eclipse Home Page:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
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pbholmes
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| Posted: Aug 14 21:26 Post subject: 2 weeks |
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Lunar eclipses quite often happen 2 weeks before or after solar ones.
Look out for a partial lunar eclipse on Saturday evening. |
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astrogeorge
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It looks like we will miss tonights eclipse, i hate the british weather!
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seabay
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Well, it was pretty much a bust down here as well - caught one brief glimpse at around 9pm - you could see the lower left quadrant of the moon was darker than the rest, but if you hadn't known it was an eclipse, you'd just have thought it was a patch of denser cloud!
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