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Total Lunar Eclipse This Week

Posted by timothy on from the noooo-don't-look-at-the-mooooon dept.

dacarr writes "Space.com has informed us that a lunar eclipse will happen on Wednesday evening, 2004-Oct-27. Baseball fans will note that this is the first time a lunar eclipse will have happened during the course of the World Series."

47 comments

  1. A better link... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a link to a better article on Space.com with a viewer's guide and timing for each stage of the eclipse (with local timezone info). Good for those of you who care about the eclipse but could give a rat's ass about baseball.

    1. Re:A better link... by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 1

      And those at the game likely won't be able to see the eclipse due to clouds.

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    2. Re:A better link... by the+real+darkskye · · Score: 1

      is the GMT in the link real GMT (aka zulu) or BST, the current UK time?

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  2. Great baseball tie in by tod_miller · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But don't forget it will be the first time it will have, had, erm, have, had, happened on that wednesday evening as well.

    And also the first time since I brushed my teeth this morning. [Anyone interested can cmoe and examine my toothbrush to find correlations between the two events]

    Does Baseball have anything to do with lunar/planetary/solar alignment?

    Or are you just mad on baseball? I am not even from the US of Baseball, so lets call it Cricket and have oranges at half time.

    Thank you please.

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    1. Re:Great baseball tie in by zanidor · · Score: 1

      Does Baseball have anything to do with lunar/planetary/solar alignment?

      Apparantly some people think so.

    2. Re:Great baseball tie in by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 1
      Baseball keeps statistics on everything. Number of strikeouts a given batter has against red-headed left-handed pitchers who prefer knuckle-balls, that sort of thing.

      The computer is the greatest thing since sliced bread, as far as baseball statistic fans are concerned - even more ability to determine inane statiscs.

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    3. Re:Great baseball tie in by Big+Sean+O · · Score: 1

      Q: Number of strikeouts a given batter has against red-headed left-handed pitchers who prefer knuckle-balls

      A: Rusty Staub: 42

      All Hail Stat-o-Matic Baseball!

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    4. Re:Great baseball tie in by fbjon · · Score: 1

      I followed the link to your father's blog, and found something about a certain "Colon Powell"... is that a typo or a common nickname?

      Speaking of word puns, is Bush man enough to even have a bush?

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    5. Re:Great baseball tie in by famebait · · Score: 1

      But don't forget it will be the first time it will have, had, erm, have, had, happened on that wednesday evening as well.

      I believe the correct tense is "will haven upon went happenid"

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  3. Didn't the Baseball finish already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Call me an ignorant Brit, but didn't we have a story a week or so ago about the Red Socks winning the baseball championship?

    1. Re:Didn't the Baseball finish already? by netfool · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      No you ignorant Brit! Boston (finally) beat the Yankees to make it to the World Series.

      Your new overlords will become The Red Sox, from Boston. Don't let them know your from York!!!

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    2. Re:Didn't the Baseball finish already? by kalidasa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And I for one will welcome our statistics-wielding, red-sock-wearing, tendon-suturing, walk-off-home-run-hitting overlords.

    3. Re:Didn't the Baseball finish already? by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 1

      No you ignorant Brit! Boston (finally) beat the Yankees to make it to the World Series.

      Actually Boston has beaten the Yankees to make it to the World Series before. There have been 5 such showdowns between the Red Sox and Yankees - 1904, 1978, 1999, 2003 and 2004. The Red Sox won in 1904 and 2004.

      As far as the portents. Does this mean the Red Sox can only win if there is a lunar eclipse during the World Series? If so, what sort of events do the Cubs require to break their losing streak? Asteroid impact?

      Or could we be saved from a Reign Of Evil Red Sox by clouds: "some clouds having on one occasion covered the sky, so that an eclipse could not be seen, the courtiers joyfully repaired to the emperor to felicitate him that Heaven, touched by his virtues, had spared him the pain of witnessing the 'eating of the moon.'"

      But probably not. The Emperor has already been vanquished, and in a truly ignominious manner. The eclipse is indeed a portent of doom for at least the Yankees.

    4. Re:Didn't the Baseball finish already? by Spock+the+Baptist · · Score: 1

      "Freedom is irrelevant. Self-determination is irrelevant."
      Irrelevance is irrelevant.

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    5. Re:Didn't the Baseball finish already? by kalidasa · · Score: 1

      So let me get this straight: the story linked to mentions the series, the posting to /. mentions the series, but I mention it and I'm offtopic?

  4. Some dates for your diary by tod_miller · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some dates up until 2012 Is it me or are lunar eclipses no very exciting?

    Perhaps because I never witnessed one deliberately. The last solar eclipse I wanted to see actually woke me up, the sun dimmed on my bed, I slumbered over to window, saw a freaky sight, then toddled off to bed. I think it was about 11:30am where I was.

    I mean, during any visible solar event you can feel the size and presence of the solar bodies (phwoar!) and it makes you feel tiny [I have some spam to cure that] in the whole run of things...

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    1. Re:Some dates for your diary by zanidor · · Score: 1

      I agree that solar events are generally more awe-inspiring, but I also think that a lunar eclipse is fun to watch, if only to see the moon turn that pretty orange/red color...

      I plan on busting out the 'ol telescope this Wednesday night, in any case.

    2. Re:Some dates for your diary by Holi · · Score: 2, Informative

      Thanks for the link. Though it is kind of depressing. No solar elcipse for North America on the list at all.

      Wait, a different list says I will get one on August 1 2008. YAY!

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    3. Re:Some dates for your diary by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 1

      Totality only in northern Canada for NA, though, in the Aug 2008 eclipse.

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    4. Re:Some dates for your diary by Holi · · Score: 1

      Thanks for ruining my day :)

      Well New York is close to Canada, I guess I can schedule a road trip if we haven't completely sealed the border by then.

      Oh wait how far north do I have to drive?

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    5. Re:Some dates for your diary by WalksOnDirt · · Score: 1

      "how far north...?"

      Artic coast, or better yet one of the islands north of there, like Ellesmere. Looks like somewhere near Toloyoak, Nunavut, is where the eclipse can be seen on the continent.

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  5. Also this Sunday by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    The outcome of the Redskins vs Green Bay game will decide who wins the US presidential elections.

  6. excuse my perhaps misinterpretation here by biryokumaru · · Score: 1, Funny

    might this be the intervention of god to break the curse of the bambino?

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  7. Re:Explanation by Tersevs · · Score: 4, Funny

    >Furthermore, it will be observable only in
    >some parts of Earth.

    Isnt the moon viewable from rougly 50% of the earth surface? That, combined with the spin of the earth during the eclipse, would make any lunar eclipse visible from more than 50% of the surface of the earth.

    I wouldnt like to be on earth if la Luna is actually eclipsed by another heavenly body.
    But I sleep well at night knowing that Bruce Willis would blow the object into pieces long before it would be a threat.

  8. oh no... by Darth_Burrito · · Score: 4, Funny

    Baseball fans will note that this is the first time a lunar eclipse will have happened during the course of the World Series."

    Ah crap, this is going to open up a whole new set of meaningless statistics. I can just see the announcers now.

    Well Bob, this should be an interesting match up because Ramirez has never given up a hit in post season play on Tuesday night games against left handed batters during a lunar eclipse.

    1. Re:oh no... by Idarubicin · · Score: 0, Redundant
      Well Bob, this should be an interesting match up because Ramirez has never given up a hit in post season play on Tuesday night games against left handed batters during a lunar eclipse.

      And it's unlikely that he ever will, given that the eclipse is on Wednesday....

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  9. Time in UTC by david.given · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's from 0114 to 0223 UTC, if I've worked out correctly.

  10. Scary by ravenspear · · Score: 1

    Why does everyone's calendar end at 2012?

    1. Re:Scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Ancient Mayan predicition.

      The Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012, and they were never wrong.

      Enjoy.

    2. Re:Scary by ravenspear · · Score: 1

      Ancient Mayan predicition.

      Yeah that's what I was getting at. That Mayan's plus this guy's.

      The Mayans predicted the world would end in 2012

      Actually no. They just predicted it would be the dawn of a new age.

    3. Re:Scary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Really? The first person who told me that said it would end in 2012.

      Jeez, I was telling everyone too, and almost looking forward to it, in a "life-is-very-unfulfilling" manner.

    4. Re:Scary by ravenspear · · Score: 1

      The prediction was that the current age would end then and a new one would begin. No one really knows what they meant by that though.

  11. More links! (solar) by eamonman · · Score: 1

    Solars are far more exciting. I've only witnessed a very-nearly-but-obviously-not-total eclipse, and that's because my parents didn't want to shell out the money to fly to the Big Island back in 1991 (grr!)

    Anyways, This site has links to images where they show the path of the eclipse on the world map. Kinda nice.

    Of course, NASA's is far more comprehensive, but it doesn't show which individual cites are blessed by such eclipses.

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  12. Some personal nifty lunar eclipse pictures .... by xmas2003 · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here's some lunar eclpse pictures that I shot of the last one on November 8th, 2003. I was just shooting random pictures of the moon, and didn't realize until I looked at 'em afterwards that I had caught a kinda neat sequence showing the movement of the moon through the branches.

    Weather forecast is looking good for tomorrow night in Boulder, Colorado ... so I'll be shooting a few pictures and be curious what I end up with.

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    1. Re:Some personal nifty lunar eclipse pictures .... by xmas2003 · · Score: 1

      You guys might like what I ended up - definately something "different" - (see link above) and the space.com guys put it in their eclipse photo wrapup which includes more of the "standard" eclipse pictures.

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  13. Re:Explanation by stanmann · · Score: 1

    Actually, technically, the moon will be eclipsed by ...



    Wait for it


    the earth.

    The earth will pass between the moon and the sun.

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  14. Where is totality .... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

    There are seveal links detailing that there will be an eclipse, and one of them indicates that the coverage area is Europe, W. Asia. Africa (except extreme E), Iceland. Greenland, Arctic, the Americas. ...

    Can some kind amateur astronomer indicate if the eclipse will be in totality for all of the above places, or some subset within?

    I'd really like to find out if my particular location (Ottawa, Canada) will be total or only partial.

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    1. Re:Where is totality .... by Smitty825 · · Score: 1

      Ummm...if you can see the moon during the "total" eclipse time, then it's a total eclipse.

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    2. Re:Where is totality .... by gstoddart · · Score: 1
      Ummm...if you can see the moon during the "total" eclipse time, then it's a total eclipse.


      Since that doesn't apply to Solar eclipses, and not all lunar eclipses are total in all areas, that is not always necessarily so.

      Which is why I asked.

      Unless, of course, it's all or nothing with a lunar eclipse meaning it's visible and total or someplace else altogether.

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    3. Re:Where is totality .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Ottawa will be in totality. Sky & Telescope have an article with a map of when it rises and sets.

      http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/ecl ip ses/article_1340_1.asp

    4. Re:Where is totality .... by p3d0 · · Score: 1

      It's a lunar eclipse. Totality will be on the moon.

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    5. Re:Where is totality .... by Koyaanisqatsi · · Score: 2

      In a moon eclipse, the earth's shadow is cast *on the moon*, so no matter where you are, if you see the moon, you'll see a "total" eclipse. You may not see the event it in its entirelly because the moon will either rise already eclipsed or will set before the show is over.

      With a sun eclipse, the moon's shadow is cast on earth, and since it's a tiny (in proportions) shadow, only those places along the path of the shadow experience an eclipse.

      This image helps how the places on earth that will have the moon above the horizon during the time of the eclipse:

      http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE20 04Oct28/image/TLE2004Oct-Map1.GIF

      I'll see it all, and plan to dust-off the scope and camera for it :)

  15. Of course, the curse! by Flexagon · · Score: 1

    Does Baseball have anything to do with lunar/planetary/solar alignment?

    Yahoo! has a nice summary: Lunar eclipse might signal Sox curse or lights out for St. Louis. This will be game 4 and possibly (as I type this) the deciding game. Choice quote:

    The eclipse will begin just before the game begins, the moon's color taking on a reddish hue - the ruby orb a perfect lunatic lighting for a crimson showdown between the Red Sox and a club named for red birds.

    How much more coincidence do you need? :-)

    1. Re:Of course, the curse! by Scott7477 · · Score: 1

      What this means is that the Red Sox will win the series and break the curse. They had to do it during a lunar eclipse....

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  16. Which explains why... by macz · · Score: 2
    As I write this post, the Red Sox are now within a single game of reversing the curse and winning the world series.

    Thereby proving that Space-Curse-Time is curved and can be inverted.

    Though, as a Red Sox Fan, I must state for the record that I am hopeful but remain cautiously pessimistic.

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  17. Better link to article by Flexagon · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Yahoo! seems to have deleted the article. A copy remains here