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A lovely partial eclipse rising from the sea from my location. Lots of
photos to wade through but I was particularly interested to check this one out, taken just as my youngest son Doug asked "Dad, why do you take so many photos?". Now he knows ;-) http://www.globalobservers.net/SkyIm...+plane_800.jpg -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk |
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Pete Lawrence wrote: A lovely partial eclipse rising from the sea from my location. Lots of photos to wade through but I was particularly interested to check this one out, taken just as my youngest son Doug asked "Dad, why do you take so many photos?". Now he knows ;-) http://www.globalobservers.net/SkyIm...+plane_800.jpg -- Pete http://www.digitalsky.org.uk Ah, fly me to the moon! |
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Pete Lawrence wrote in
: A lovely partial eclipse rising from the sea from my location. Lots of photos to wade through but I was particularly interested to check this one out, taken just as my youngest son Doug asked "Dad, why do you take so many photos?". Now he knows ;-) http://www.globalobservers.net/SkyIm..._lunar_eclipse +plane_800.jpg Bah! It was below the horizon here in the antipodes! Klazmon |
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"Pete Lawrence" wrote in message ... A lovely partial eclipse rising from the sea from my location. Lots of photos to wade through but I was particularly interested to check this one out, taken just as my youngest son Doug asked "Dad, why do you take so many photos?". Now he knows ;-) http://www.globalobservers.net/SkyIm...+plane_800.jpg Hi Pete Congratulations on your nice image. It looks very much like the cover photo on the Reflector, official publication of the Astronomical League. My copy arrived in the mail just minutes before I saw your photo. Bill |
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wrote in message ... Question to anyone who might know: have any photographs ever been taken of the earth during a seen-from-earth lunar eclipse, from any spacecraft in orbit around the moon or on its surface? I'm sure such would look pretty spectacular, especially during a total eclipse. Which would amount to a solar eclipse from the lunar observer's point of view? I'd like to see that. I'd also like to see an eclipse of the Earth from the lunar viewpoint - in other words, while a total solar eclipse is being observed from the Earth's surface. (I suppose this would just cast a big circular shadow on the face of the Earth, since it's so much bigger than the moon?) ally |
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Wasn't it a l l y who wrote:
I'd also like to see an eclipse of the Earth from the lunar viewpoint - in other words, while a total solar eclipse is being observed from the Earth's surface. (I suppose this would just cast a big circular shadow on the face of the Earth, since it's so much bigger than the moon?) There's lots of images of eclipses taken from satellites in high Earth orbits. The view from the Moon would be much the same. http://bobqat.com/Essays/disteyes/eclipse.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/w...lipse-2006.htm The last of those links also includes a movie made from the Meteosat images of the eclipse shadow crossing the Earth. -- Mike Williams Gentleman of Leisure |
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wrote: Question to anyone who might know: have any photographs ever been taken of the earth during a seen-from-earth lunar eclipse, from any spacecraft in orbit around the moon or on its surface? I'm sure such would look pretty spectacular, especially during a total eclipse. This question is asked from time to time. Yes, Surveyor 3 did that in 1967, two years before the first manned lunar landing. Links to web pages related to this, some with images, can be found he http://tinyurl.com/m9edy I'm not aware of any other "total solar eclipse from the Moon" (i.e. a total lunar eclipse for us) which has been photographed from the vicinity of the Moon. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/ |
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a l l y wrote: wrote in message ... Question to anyone who might know: have any photographs ever been taken of the earth during a seen-from-earth lunar eclipse, from any spacecraft in orbit around the moon or on its surface? I'm sure such would look pretty spectacular, especially during a total eclipse. Which would amount to a solar eclipse from the lunar observer's point of view? I'd like to see that. Check out: http://tinyurl.com/m9edy I'd also like to see an eclipse of the Earth from the lunar viewpoint - in other words, while a total solar eclipse is being observed from the Earth's surface. (I suppose this would just cast a big circular shadow on the face of the Earth, since it's so much bigger than the moon?) Check out: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021209.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980312.html http://theastropages.com/articles/articles011.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:E...12-E-21351.JPG -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Schlyter, Grev Turegatan 40, SE-114 38 Stockholm, SWEDEN e-mail: pausch at stockholm dot bostream dot se WWW: http://stjarnhimlen.se/ |
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"Mike Williams" wrote in message ... Wasn't it a l l y who wrote: I'd also like to see an eclipse of the Earth from the lunar viewpoint - in other words, while a total solar eclipse is being observed from the Earth's surface. (I suppose this would just cast a big circular shadow on the face of the Earth, since it's so much bigger than the moon?) There's lots of images of eclipses taken from satellites in high Earth orbits. The view from the Moon would be much the same. http://bobqat.com/Essays/disteyes/eclipse.html http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990830.html http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/w...lipse-2006.htm The last of those links also includes a movie made from the Meteosat images of the eclipse shadow crossing the Earth. Some pretty spectacular pics there. Can't find the movie though.... ally |
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wrote: Question to anyone who might know: have any photographs ever been taken of the earth during a seen-from-earth lunar eclipse, from any spacecraft in orbit around the moon or on its surface? I'm sure such would look pretty spectacular, especially during a total eclipse. Certainly not from Apollo - the landings were timed so that the Sun was only about 15 degrees abover the lunar horizon at the time and site of landing. This was to have illumination as optimal as possible for landing (as all of us who've looked at the moon through a telescope know, the visible detail is best near the terminator, which a moment's thought will tell you is where the Sun isn't far above the lunar horizon). Consequently, Apollo landings never took place at full moon. [ source for that is Michael Collins' excellent book about his experiences as an astronaut "Carrying the fire". Probably the best memoir of the Apollo project that I've read so far ] Tim |
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