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Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the umbra-and-penumbra dept.

SeaDour writes "This Saturday night, March 3rd, a total lunar eclipse will be visible from nearly all inhabited parts of the world. A great shadow will stretch across the surface of the moon, eventually casting it in an eerie red glow as sunlight filters through our atmosphere onto the lunar surface. Viewers in Europe and Africa will have the best vantage point, able to watch the entire eclipse in action, while observers in most of the western hemisphere can see it eclipsed as it rises just after sunset."

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  1. When where.. by JackMeyhoff · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://skytonight.com/observing/home/This_Weekends _Total_Lunar_Eclipse.html http://media.skytonight.com/images/March'07+TLE_l. jpg

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  2. I for one.. by bumby · · Score: 2, Informative

    I for one will have my camera ready, hoping to snatch some nice pictures.

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  3. Re:Time information by ACS+Solver · · Score: 5, Informative

    Begins at 2018 GMT, with the full eclipse being 2244 - 2358 GMT.

  4. Omen by sporkme · · Score: 5, Informative

    The eclipse starts at 3:18 p.m. EST Saturday, with the total eclipse occurring at 5:44 p.m. EST. Look east at sunset. I'll be out there for sure.

    The next total lunar eclipse occurs on August 28.

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  5. Re:Time information by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Usually astronomical events happened 24 hours before they are posted in /.

    Seriously, while this one made it in time, wouldn't it be possible to put a "astronomy event" tag on submissions in firehose so that those submissions can be treated in priority and make it on time on the frontpage ?

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  6. Inhabited!? by Myopic · · Score: 2, Informative

    What does that even mean, "visible from all inhabited places on earth"? First of all, I live in Juneau, Alaska, a place which is very much so inhabited (okay, not *very* much so, but certainly inhabited), but isn't going to see the eclipse. Moreover, the west coast of the United States, inhabited by more than thirty million people, won't see it either.

    Alaska represent! I'll be yawning during this eclipse. Someone email me a picture.