... Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh BT61 9DG, +44 (0)28 3752 2928 . ... Armagh Observatory reports that, if skies are clear on the night of 27/28 September, skywatchers will witness a rare total eclipse of the Moon during the early hours of Monday 28th. ... As the eclipse progresses from penumbral to partial phase, and then towards totality, it is interesting to observe how the dark shadow of the Earth slowly encroaches on the Full Moon until the Moon is nearly completely obscured. ...

... 6.07.2001 . ... Credit Copyright: Murray Alexander Explanation: Starting at the upper left, this sequence of images follows the progress of the magnificent 21 June, 2001 solar eclipse in the clear skies over Bakasa, Zimbabwe. ... In the early and late phases of this eclipse of the active Sun , sunspot groups can be seen lingering on the solar surface . ... Publications with keywords: active Sun - solar eclipse - Zimbabwe . Publications with words: active Sun - solar eclipse - Zimbabwe . ...

... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2001 July 6 . Bakasa Eclipse Sequence . ... Explanation: Starting at the upper left, this sequence of images follows the progress of the magnificent 21 June, 2001 solar eclipse in the clear skies over Bakasa, Zimbabwe. ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ... A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC . ...

Hipparchus (and possibly Aristarchus before him) also derived the Moon's distance from the duration of a lunar eclipse . Because the Earth casts a much larger shadow than the Moon, such an eclipse usually darkens the entire Moon, for several hours. ... If the Sun is assumed to be very distant, and if the Moon crosses the middle of the shadow (if not, corrections must be made), the width of the shadow is expected to be about 2r , twice the Earth's radius r . ... Last updated 4 February 1999 Moon. ...

... The highlight of the month is the total eclipse of the Moon during the night of December 20/21. ... Listed below are some of the key events, and the times they will occur, during December's total lunar eclipse. ... The eclipse is also visible in its entirety from Alaska (local time is UT тАУ 9 hours) and Hawaii (UT тАУ 10 hours), but be aware that most of the eclipse occurs on the 20th in these two regions. ... Penumbral Eclipse Begins . ... Partial Eclipse Begins . ... Total Eclipse Begins . ...

Astrophotography Forum Message . ... Remote Photography By A Total Solar Eclipse . ... Maxim DL is a astronomical program to connect a camera to a telescope for remote-photography by the stars and deep sky, but as far as I understand it is not possible to program exposures of 1/1000, 1/500 or 1/60 second. ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

... solar system . ... Solar eclipse travelogue: Sulawesi delivers a spectacular eclipse . ... Observe the Solar System . ... Tour the Solar System . ... Do the paths of totality during solar eclipses follow a pattern that repeats after a certain period? ... RELATED TOPICS: SOLAR ECLIPSE . Total eclipses follow a period known as the saros, which is 18 years and 11 1/3 days long. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Join Astronomy for America's 2017 total solar eclipse! ...

... First Contact Moon begins to move over Sun from West Starts at ~5:44:45 AM (about 10 minutes after sunrise) Must observe sun with filter! Good time to check and adjust mount tracking and alignment Watch for sunspots 6/21/ 2001 - Zambia ( Mario Motta ) First Contact Crescent images of Sun Natural pin-holes such as leaves on trees Pin-holes in cardboard Mario Motta Watch sky and environment Gradually darkens Temperature drops 8/11/1999 Hungary (Eric Pauer) ~1 min Before Second ...

Having studied the solar corona and its radio emissions sunspot cycles ago, I was keen to verify its existence optically during the total solar eclipse of Wednesday, 4 December 2002, the first on Australian soil since 1976. The moon's shadow was to travel from the south-Atlantic west of The Congo, across southern Africa, the Indian Ocean and into the Great Australian Bight, finally making Australian landfall at Ceduna, South Australia (SA). ... The favoured site to observe the eclipse was Ceduna. ...

This section describes the calculation by which Aristarchus used the duration of a total lunar eclipse to deduce the distance of the Moon. ... This lesson plan supplements: "How Distant is the Moon--1", section #8c: on disk Shipprc2.htm , on the web . ... The shadow of the Earth at the Moon's distance is narrower than the Earth, because the Sun is seen not as a point but as a disk 0.5 degrees wide. ... An eclipse of the Moon is the passage of the Moon through the shadow of the Earth. ...

... The 200 km wide shadow of the total eclipse went from Turkey, crossed Black Sea and Abhazia, and its centrum passed near the highest Caucasus mountain Elbrus. ... The Special Astrophysical Observatory was located at the edge of the shadow, and a single interior contact was seen from the upper observational site at the 6-m telescope BTA. ... This light was stronger in the beginning and in the end and weaker in the middle of totality. ... When will this end?" ... Beginning of the total phase. ...

... This year's eclipse is unique in duration. ... Although, at the present time, there are 6 solar observatories belonging to leading space agencies in orbit around the Earth, the eclipse of 22 July, 2009, will only be seen by two of them: the Russian CORONAS-PHOTON satellite equipped with TESIS telescopes and Japan's HINODE satellite fitted with an XRT space telescope. ... TESIS will be the first of the two devices (and the very first on Earth) to witness the solar eclipse. ...

... We present a computer program for modelling energy flux distribution and light curves of eclipsing binaries from far ultraviolet to infrared regions. The Roche model is assumed. Proximity effects of components (reflection of radiation and surface gravity darkening) are taken into account. ... Figure 1: The surface temperature distribution for Algol A-B system before (upper plot) and after (lower plot) correction for temperature due to the irradiation effect. ...

... The March 20 total solar eclipse was visible over the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. ... Solar eclipses are of interest for radio astronomy, as they make it possible to observe individual details on the solar disc (spots, filaments, flocculi, etc.) ... On March 20, 2015 the integrated observations of the solar eclipse were carried out at the RATAN-600 radio telescope at 70 wavelengths simultaneously in the range of 1.65cm to 10cm with the 1% frequency resolution. ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Solar System . Sun . ... Space Flight . ... Posted on March 16, 2015 | No Comments As everyone knows on Friday 20 March 2015, a total solar eclipse will occur across the far northern regions of Europe and the Arctic. ... Continue Reading.. ... 8 Comments The ancient Chinese thought they were stars inside a solar orb. ... Here you will find the latest news and views from the fascinating worlds of astronomy and space exploration. ...

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XMM-Newton EPIC TTD Meeting Preparation for next eclipse season 7th Feb 2001 Mauro Casale ESA H/Q: 7th February 2001 XMM 1 Facts / lessons learned from previous eclipses 1) the eclipses will occur before perigee in the period 19-03- 2001 / 24-04- 2001 2) the shortest time between end of eclipse and Perigee time is about 22 minutes; in most of the other cases it is around 30-31 ... T0 - 1.6/1h: Eclipse start. ... ESA H/Q : 7th February 2001 XMM 7 ...

... The Eclipsed Sun on August 11, 1999 . ... A splendid photo of the total phase, obtained by ESO staff member Phillippe Duhoux , observing at a site some kilometres from the ESO Headquarters in Garching. ... The zone of totality was about 108 km wide and the ESO HQ were located only 8 km south of the line of maximum totality. ... JPEG: 800 x 477 pix - 481k] . ... She managed to see part of the totality phase and filed some dramatic reports at the S&T Eclipse Expedition website . ... Eclipse Photos . ...

These images were taken at Moore Observatory in Louisville, Kentucky, and at Mt. Kent Observatory in Queensland, Australia, with Nikon D200 digital SLR cameras. ... 2:10 EDT (Full moon) . 3:19 EDT (Penumbral eclipse underway) . ... 5:22 EDT (Totality 30 minutes away) . ... 5:53 EDT (Totality) . ... Kent Observatory are Copyright 2007 by the University of Southern Queensland and Rhodes Hart. Images from Moore Observatory are Copyright 2007 by John Kielkopf , University of Louisville. ...

... A light curve decomposition tool ( LFIT ) developed by Keith Horne and Tom Marsh and its application on HST-data of the eclipsing dwarf nova IP Peg will be presented. ... Our LFIT code decomposes time-resolved spectral data into N components with parameterized light curve shapes, solving for the spectra of each component. ... To apply this algorithm to the HST and UBVRI eclipses of IP Peg, we add an ellipsoidal light curve for the companion star, and a more detailed description of the bright spot. ...