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This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century (washingtonpost.com)
On July 27, the moon is set to glide through Earth's shadow to create a red total lunar eclipse for one hour and 43 minutes -- the longest such eclipse of the young century. Viewers in the United States will have to watch the eclipse online as they're on the wrong side of the world. "Folks in western Africa, part of Europe, the Middle East and India will only have to look up to the sky to catch the deep-copper-toned totality in person," reports The Washington Post. From the report: "What makes the upcoming one special is that it occurs at nearly the same time as the year's second-most-distant lunar apogee (the monthly moment when the moon is most distant from Earth) and the moon passes almost smack through the center of Earth's shadow," astronomer Geoff Chester of the Naval Observatory said. He continued: "This will make it the longest-duration total lunar eclipse of the century. It's also cool that [the eclipse] occurs on the night that Mars reaches opposition, so (for people on the other side of the world) you'll have a red moon six degrees north of the Red Planet." All eclipses belong to eclipse families called saros. In this case, this eclipse is part of Saros 139, and it is No. 38 in a family of 71 that started June 10, 1351. This saros will last until July 24, 2613, per NASA. While technically this will be the longest eclipse of the century, the two previous lunar eclipses in this series -- July 16, 2000 (No. 37, Saros 139) and July 6, 1982 (No. 36, Saros 139) -- lasted longer than this one. In fact, the July 16, 2000, lunar eclipse lasted about three minutes longer. But remember, astronomers count the year 2000 as part of the last century.
Throughout the Eastern time zone, according to NASA and the U.S. Naval Observatory, the lunar eclipse (penumbral phase) starts at 1:14 p.m. and partiality occurs at 2:24 p.m. Totality starts at 3:30 p.m., with the maximum totality at 4:21 p.m. Totality will end at 5:13 p.m., and the partial eclipse ends at 6:19 p.m. Everything is over by 7:28 p.m. Unfortunately, the moon will not have risen anywhere in the United States for viewing during this window. If you're not able to watch it locally, you can tune to the Weather Channel app, the website Slooh, or TimeandDate.com. The NBC News streaming network is also showing the eclipse at 4 p.m. on July 27.
Throughout the Eastern time zone, according to NASA and the U.S. Naval Observatory, the lunar eclipse (penumbral phase) starts at 1:14 p.m. and partiality occurs at 2:24 p.m. Totality starts at 3:30 p.m., with the maximum totality at 4:21 p.m. Totality will end at 5:13 p.m., and the partial eclipse ends at 6:19 p.m. Everything is over by 7:28 p.m. Unfortunately, the moon will not have risen anywhere in the United States for viewing during this window. If you're not able to watch it locally, you can tune to the Weather Channel app, the website Slooh, or TimeandDate.com. The NBC News streaming network is also showing the eclipse at 4 p.m. on July 27.
lunar eclipses aren't that spectacular. Like going through a full cycle of moon phases in one night. But still, you should have watched one.
bickerdyke
I am ready for it
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C'mon, editors. Show some balls. Here is a (GASP!) free and non-paywalled, and probably more informative page on this event.
Sheesh. Peddling paywalled content whereas there are much better informed free alternatives. What happened to the internet utopia? What's happening to the commons?
This is slashdot, FFS!
https://www.timeanddate.com/ec...
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
But remember, astronomers count the year 2000 as part of the last century.
EVERYBODY counts year 2000 as part of last century. When you count to 10, you go 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and if you want to count 10 more, what do you do ? You start at 11, oh what a shocker ! Same for years and decades, centuries or millenia.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
Why are we useing Eastern Standard Time for an event that cannot be seen there?
GMT is the standard. And there is some visibility.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
"Make american eclipses great again!"
Fortunately we in the UK will be spared this lunacy, as we will, in the traditional way, have the worst thunderstorms since records began (last Thursday).
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I genuinely want to know how Flat Earthers explain the lunar eclipse?
For hilarity.
"Viewers in the United States will have to watch the eclipse online as they're on the wrong side of the world."
Oh, I see how it is! Or apparently we won't see how it is. It is also the Earth/Planet not World/People.
There will be an interesting celestial event called a selenelion for NZ'ers. This is where the blood moon can be seen at the same time as the rising sun due to some sort of atmospheric refraction. Best viewed in the lower south island but still some might see it further north given a good view of the opposing horizons.
Here's the NASA info page about it, including all of the times in UTC (as they should be!): https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/...
And NASA's details on Saros 129: https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/...
Trump will say this is NOT caused by man, and be correct for once.
Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.
Aren't you in the least bit disturbed by the changing shape of the shadow during the progression of the eclipse?
I genuinely want to know how 'scientists' explain the lunar or solar eclipse.
For instance, an above poster posted his own photos: http://astro.ecuadors.net/2892015-lunar-eclipse-photos-time-lapse/
And this video shows the same thing: https://vimeo.com/253700958
The shadow changes shape (curvature) over the course of the eclipse.
The solar eclipse: https://vimeo.com/230976895 Red light appears on the back of the moon, the entire inside outer edge of the moon is blurred with light that shouldn't be there.
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did netcraft confirm that BSD was dying?
How so? We're on the outside of a sphere, not a cube or dodecahedron or some crazy shape.
If you said we're within the wrong hemisphere, I would've given you that. ;)
The phases of the moon result from a relative change in the location of the light source on a sphere. An eclipse is the result of a spherical object moving into a circular shadow. It isn't the same effect and it wont look exactly the same.
... no cause for alarm.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
Agreed. But shadows also don't change shape while moving across objects when there is no perspective involved(we are within the shadow looking back to the moon, not apart from it), so look again.
Notice that the shadow curve increases until half way, then stays the same until completion. That is a veil of darkness expanding over a sphere in 3D, not a shadow.
As a matter of fact, Netcraft did confirm that BSD is dead: Netcraft 2017 Web Server Survey