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15 July 2010
Gallery of July 11 Solar Eclipse Images
On July 11, 2010, the new moon passed directly in front of the sun, causing a total solar eclipse. The path of totality stretched across the South Pacific Ocean, and the Moon's umbral shadow didn't make landfall except for a few spots; Mangaia (Cook Islands) and Easter Island (Isla de Pascua), southern Chile and Argentina, [...]
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09 July 2010
July 11 Total Eclipse Among the Mysterious Moai
A group of astronomers are now on the mysterious Easter Island, one of the few solid places to stand on Earth where a total solar eclipse will be visible on July 11, 2010. The majority of the eclipse's path is over the ocean, so this will be one of the least observed eclipses ever. "This [...]
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24 June 2010
Partial Lunar Eclipse Visible June 26, 2010
Wake up, SkyWatchers! A partial lunar eclipse is coming your way on June 26, 2010. While the real visible action will be best in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, observers to the east will be able to catch the beginning of the lunar eclipse and observers to the west will catch the end of [...]
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26 January 2010
Satellite Captures Solar Eclipse from Space
The recently launched Proba-2 satellite was able to observe the annular solar eclipse on January 15, 2010, with stunning results. The PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy satellite was launched on November 2, 2009 and is intended to test hardware and software that might be incorporated into future ESA missions. The eclipse offered a [...]
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18 January 2010
Annular Eclipse Photos, Videos From Earth and Space
Caption: Annular solar eclipse on January 15, 2009. Courtesy Daniel Fischer, "cosmos4u" on Twitter. The first of two solar eclipses to occur in 2010 took place Friday, January 15. This was an annular eclipse, which means the Sun was not totally covered by the Moon, creating a "ring of fire." The [...]
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02 January 2010
Blue Moon Eclipse Photos from Santhosh Nandakumar
We couldn't see the eclipse from my house on Vancouver Island, but Santhosh Nandakumar was kind enough to send in this sequence of images of the eclipse from Coimbatore, TN, India. © Fraser for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
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01 January 2010
New Year's Eve Blue Moon Eclipse from Cornwall
Happy New Year! Thanks to Nathanial Burton-Bradford for sharing his photo of the New Year's Eve Blue Moon Eclipse. "Very hazy high level clouds over Cornwall so not very clear, unfortunately," Nathanial wrote this morning. But beautifully breathtaking nonetheless! Onward to 2010! © nancy for Universe Today, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: [...]
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22 December 2009
It's A Blue Moon New Year's Eve Party!
Have you enjoyed our lunar studies together this year? We hope you’ve taken the time to follow the phases and to appreciate what you see. Although it would be wonderful to end our this year's time together viewing the distant cosmos, something very cool is about to happen… (...)Read the rest of It's A [...]
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22 July 2009
July 22, 2009 Total Solar Eclipse from China – Let's Chase!
The total solar eclipse which just occurred on the 22nd of July 2009 was the longest maximum duration of the 21st century. Not since Saros 1991 have astronomers and eclipse chasers been treat to such an event! Totality lasted over six and a half minutes at maximum. duration. The event started in India [...]
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10 June 2009
Lunar, Solar Eclipses Hold Secrets to Other Worlds
Want to know about the atmospheres of planets around other stars, and the stars themselves? Start at home. A pair of papers in this week’s issue of Nature is advocating continued studies of both lunar eclipses, when the Moon transits Earth’s shadow, and solar eclipses — when the Moon comes directly between Earth and the sun. (...)Read the [...]
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19 February 2009
Kaguya Captures Eclipse — From the Moon
Here's something you don't see everyday. In fact, this is the first time this has ever been seen. On Feb. 10 Japan's Kaguya spacecraft in orbit around the moon successfully took an image of a penumbral lunar eclipse. That's the Earth passing in front of the sun, as seen from the Moon. [...]
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26 January 2009
January 26 Annular Eclipse Photos
An annular solar eclipse earlier today was visible in South-East Asia, southern Africa and Australia. Thanks to M.R. Taufik from Bontang, Indonesia for sharing this image of a complete ring or annulus of light from the sun peeking out from around the moon. Because the moon's orbit is elliptical, its distance [...]
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18 August 2008
August 17, 2008 Partial Lunar Eclipse Caught "Down Under"
If you read this week's SkyWatcher's Forecast, then you knew several areas of the world were in for a partial lunar eclipse event. While the Moon basically just did a glancing pass through the umbral shadow, the effect was still dramatic and I was hoping that at least one photographer out there would have [...]
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28 July 2008
Friday's Total Solar Eclipse can be Watched on the Internet
If you've ever wanted to see a solar eclipse, this might be the time to do it. It is a very rare chance to see an eclipse at totality because the Moon's shadow is so small and, more often than not, it falls on sparsely populated regions of the planet. Often eclipse hunters are resigned [...]
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24 June 2008
Homer's "Odyssey" May Chronicle Ancient Eclipse
It's likely that sometime in your education career, an English teacher had you enjoy (or suffer through, depending on your tastes) at least part of that classic of classics, Homer's Odyssey. It tells the story of Odysseus, a Greek general, who embarks on a 10-year journey back home after battling in the fall of [...]
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