Total Lunar Eclipse This Week

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."

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A better link...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Great baseball tie in

[tod_miller]

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.

Some dates for your diary

[tod_miller]

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...

Re:Some dates for your diary

[Holi]

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!

Re:Explanation

[Tersevs]

>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.

oh no...

[Darth_Burrito]

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.

Time in UTC

[david.given]

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

Some personal nifty lunar eclipse pictures ....

[xmas2003]

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.

Re:Where is totality ....

[Koyaanisqatsi]

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 :)

Which explains why...

[macz]

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.