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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Best picture I have of one is one taken by Professor Jeanette Stock in
Venezuela. It shows the uneven rays of light surrounding the black Moon.(breath taking) Is the Moon a perfect size disk? Do the mountains on the Moon have any effect? how much better could this total effect be? what are the odds of size and distance creating such a great blocking of the Sun? Bert |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Best picture I have of one is one taken by Professor Jeanette Stock in Venezuela. It shows the uneven rays of light surrounding the black Moon.(breath taking) Is the Moon a perfect size disk? Do the mountains on the Moon have any effect? how much better could this total effect be? what are the odds of size and distance creating such a great blocking of the Sun? Bert Well, Beeeert, let's first take a look at our Earth. It has a circumference of 24,900 miles. The tallest mountain, Mt. Everest, is a mere 5.5 miles high. This makes the Earth smoother than any bowling ball, billiard ball or high-precision machined ball bearing ... for all practical purposes, it is a perfectly smooth sphere. The Moon has a circumference of appr. 1/4 of that of Earth, 6,790 miles. Since the Moon is geologically dead and has been so for billions of years, there are no mountains on the Moon, since there never was any tectonic plate movement to create them. What appear to be mountains are merely different shades of color on its surface. There are high crater rims, but I suspect none exceeds even one mile in height, making the Moon just as smooth a sphere as the Earth is. Because of its spin, the diameter at the equator is somewhat bigger than its polar counterpart, due to the fact that the Moon was in a molten state shortly after its creation, as a result of a glancing blow administered to Earth by a rogue planet about the size of Mercury and it solidified with that equatorial bulge. But nonetheless, it is extremely smooth. |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Hagar (the horrible) are you for real? bert
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"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Hagar (the horrible) are you for real? bert You wondered if there were mountains on the Moon interfereing or distorting the view during a Solar Eclipse. I explained it to you. Which part didn't you understand ?? |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Hagar wrote: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Hagar (the horrible) are you for real? bert You wondered if there were mountains on the Moon interfereing or distorting the view during a Solar Eclipse. I explained it to you. Which part didn't you understand ?? "Interestingly, the silhouette of the Moon is not a perfect circle, but rather it is slightly prickly with mountains, which are relatively much higher than those on Earth. So just before the transition from annular to total and later, just after the transition from total back to annular, the eclipse will become something neither annular nor total: it will be a broken annular. As lunar mountains protrude onto the hairline-thin ring of the Sun, it will be seen not as an unbroken ring but an irregular, changing, sparkling sequence of arcs, beads and diamonds very briefly encircling the Moon: a "diamond necklace" effect! This is a spectacle that viewers in the Panama and possibly Costa Rica might see." http://www.space.com/spacewatch/0504...r_eclipse.html Double-A |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Hagar (the horrible) The Moon has mountains and they are to tall to be
crater ridges. The tallest mountain in the solar system is on Mars its name is "Olympus Mons" its height is 16 miles,and plate tectonics had nothing to do with creating this mountain. It was a volcano(get the picture) The hills and mountains on the Moon came from volcanoes over 2.3 billion years ago. Reality is there is lava flow still seen on its surface. Looking at a picture of it as I type This sea of solidified lava is called "Maria" Turned to another nice picture I have with astronaut James Irwin in the driver's seat as he drives by a very tall hill or short mountain It even has a nice peak and looks little like the Great Pyramid only bigger. I know your ego Hagar will make you not go back to your stupid post. It might make your dim brain block this information. Go in one ear and out the other. Well best to remember a total eclipse is a much better match up than an annular eclipse. Bert |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
"G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Hagar (the horrible) The Moon has mountains and they are to tall to be crater ridges. The tallest mountain in the solar system is on Mars its name is "Olympus Mons" its height is 16 miles,and plate tectonics had nothing to do with creating this mountain. It was a volcano(get the picture) The hills and mountains on the Moon came from volcanoes over 2.3 billion years ago. Reality is there is lava flow still seen on its surface. Looking at a picture of it as I type This sea of solidified lava is called "Maria" Turned to another nice picture I have with astronaut James Irwin in the driver's seat as he drives by a very tall hill or short mountain It even has a nice peak and looks little like the Great Pyramid only bigger. I know your ego Hagar will make you not go back to your stupid post. It might make your dim brain block this information. Go in one ear and out the other. Well best to remember a total eclipse is a much better match up than an annular eclipse. Bert Beeert, speaking of dim brains, you are full of it. Go to this page and get an education: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l...n_surface.html You will notice that the Moon has "highlands", which are a far cry from the mountains you suggest one sees at its edge during a solar eclipse. I can't stop you from posting crap, but to save yourself some embarrassment, do a little research before firing from the hip. Surely you have heard of "Google" ... try it, you might just like it. |
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"Double-A" wrote in message ups.com... Hagar wrote: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Hagar (the horrible) are you for real? bert You wondered if there were mountains on the Moon interfereing or distorting the view during a Solar Eclipse. I explained it to you. Which part didn't you understand ?? "Interestingly, the silhouette of the Moon is not a perfect circle, but rather it is slightly prickly with mountains, which are relatively much higher than those on Earth. So just before the transition from annular to total and later, just after the transition from total back to annular, the eclipse will become something neither annular nor total: it will be a broken annular. As lunar mountains protrude onto the hairline-thin ring of the Sun, it will be seen not as an unbroken ring but an irregular, changing, sparkling sequence of arcs, beads and diamonds very briefly encircling the Moon: a "diamond necklace" effect! This is a spectacle that viewers in the Panama and possibly Costa Rica might see." http://www.space.com/spacewatch/0504...r_eclipse.html Double-A Double Anus, so much for the Moon's mountains that all you nuts proclaim to see: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l...n_surface.html |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Hagar wrote: "Double-A" wrote in message ups.com... Hagar wrote: "G=EMC^2 Glazier" wrote in message ... Hagar (the horrible) are you for real? bert You wondered if there were mountains on the Moon interfereing or distorting the view during a Solar Eclipse. I explained it to you. Which part didn't you understand ?? "Interestingly, the silhouette of the Moon is not a perfect circle, but rather it is slightly prickly with mountains, which are relatively much higher than those on Earth. So just before the transition from annular to total and later, just after the transition from total back to annular, the eclipse will become something neither annular nor total: it will be a broken annular. As lunar mountains protrude onto the hairline-thin ring of the Sun, it will be seen not as an unbroken ring but an irregular, changing, sparkling sequence of arcs, beads and diamonds very briefly encircling the Moon: a "diamond necklace" effect! This is a spectacle that viewers in the Panama and possibly Costa Rica might see." http://www.space.com/spacewatch/0504...r_eclipse.html Double-A Double Anus, so much for the Moon's mountains that all you nuts proclaim to see: http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/l...n_surface.html Can't admit you were wrong without insulting, huh? Admit it, Bert was right, and you were wrong! Double-A |
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How Total is a Total Solar Eclipse ??
Double-A Hagar will never admit he is wrong. He goes well with the
shotting of the messenger if you don't like the message. That page he tells us to read is nothing.,but to him it gives the answers(go figure) Hagars true colors come out when he is told how stupid he is. Take Baily's beads,they are caused by bits of the solar disk shining through the irregular terrain of mountains,and valleys on the lunar surface. Total eclipse in 1919 made the name Einstein a house hold name. How much light bent he predicted very accurate,and I find that measurement very interesting. I never knew what star they used?(still don't) Before and after Photography was needed,and I like that. Bert |
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