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Google and Slooh To Broadcast Lunar Eclipse

Posted by samzenpus on from the dark-side-of-the-moon dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today Google and Slooh, the online Space Camera, are broadcasting a live online feed of the total lunar eclipse starting at 2:00 PM EDT. The live feed can be accessed at Slooh's Mission Interface and also as a featured video stream on Google's channel on YouTube. Live audio narration by astronomy experts will accompany the live feed. This online astronomy collaboration will allow people all over the world to watch this rare celestial event."

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  1. Rare? by FrostedWheat · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't have considered lunar eclipses all that rare.

    1. Re:Rare? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      From the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2011_lunar_eclipse)

      "This is a relatively rare central lunar eclipse where the center point of Earth's shadow is on the disk. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018."

    2. Re:Rare? by QuasiSteve · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The rarity is in actually getting to see it. For most of North America, it's on the wrong side of the planet right now.

      For large parts of Europe, cloud cover is ruining things.

      So while there may be one almost every year, the number that you could see from your location is much lower, and the number that you actually -can- see, due to clouds or fog or whatever, is lower still.

  2. Re:Someone please tell me who is commentating by chemicaldave · · Score: 4, Funny

    He just disclosed that Buzz Aldrin's urine bag in one of his boots broke when he took his first step on the moon. Poor guy.