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Old January 18th 04, 08:27 AM
Richard Kingdon
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard


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Old January 18th 04, 08:53 AM
David Barnes
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"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard


Try here http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/when_search.shtml

Did a quick search myself and didn't see anything for that date in the 90's.

Regards,
Dave


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Old January 18th 04, 09:55 AM
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I remember an eclipse of the sun in 1990 or 1991. That was in the US. Maybe
from your angle in the UK it looked like a lunar eclipse.


"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard




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Old January 18th 04, 11:28 AM
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"Cotton Spandey" wrote in message
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"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard


I remember an eclipse of the sun in 1990 or 1991. That was in the US.

Maybe
from your angle in the UK it looked like a lunar eclipse.


very funny....but not very helpful
the link http://www.hermit.org/Eclipse/when_search.shtml is helpful and
shows that there were no eclipses on 17th feb in any of the years between
1980 and 2004.


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Old January 18th 04, 06:01 PM
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"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard

I have the program called Starrynight and it lists all the lunar eclipses,

I did not see any for the date 2/17 for any year in the 90's. I also set my
program for Manchester,England and looked for it that way and came up with
zilch.


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Old January 18th 04, 06:05 PM
Rick
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"Jacki Diamato" wrote in message ...

"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard

I have the program called Starrynight and it lists all the lunar eclipses,

I did not see any for the date 2/17 for any year in the 90's. I also set my
program for Manchester,England and looked for it that way and came up with
zilch.


According to Astronomy Lab, there was a total lunar eclipse
on Feb. 9th, 1990:

Manchester, England Latitude: 53°30'00" N Longitude: 2°15'00" W
Local Time = UT + 0.00 hours Elevation: 0 meters

Lunar eclipse on 2/ 9/1990
Moon rise: 16:56
Moon set: 7:35
Magnitude: 1.07
Partial phase begins: 17:33
Total phase begins: 18:53
Time of maximum eclipse: 19:14
Total phase ends: 19:35
Partial phase ends: 20:56

No partial or total lunar eclipses on Feb. 17th during the 1990's.

Rick


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Old January 18th 04, 06:46 PM
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 09:05:23 -0800, Rick wrote:

"Jacki Diamato" wrote in message ...

"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
...
I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard

I have the program called Starrynight and it lists all the lunar eclipses,

I did not see any for the date 2/17 for any year in the 90's. I also set my
program for Manchester,England and looked for it that way and came up with
zilch.


According to Astronomy Lab, there was a total lunar eclipse
on Feb. 9th, 1990:

Manchester, England Latitude: 53°30'00" N Longitude: 2°15'00" W
Local Time = UT + 0.00 hours Elevation: 0 meters

Lunar eclipse on 2/ 9/1990
Moon rise: 16:56
Moon set: 7:35
Magnitude: 1.07
Partial phase begins: 17:33
Total phase begins: 18:53
Time of maximum eclipse: 19:14
Total phase ends: 19:35
Partial phase ends: 20:56

No partial or total lunar eclipses on Feb. 17th during the 1990's.

Rick


Did you consider that maybe your date is wrong?
I seem to remember there was a total lunar eclipse in 1992 (viewable in
Europe), IIRC in december and I was so ****ed it was cloudy that day...


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Old January 18th 04, 07:38 PM
Richard Kingdon
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You're quite right, I must have got the date wrong. The eclipse I was
looking for was the total lunar eclipse that occurred on 9th Feb 1990. My
daughter and I sat up and watched it and it was amazing.
Thanks for the info.
Richard.
"Rick" wrote in message
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"Jacki Diamato" wrote in message

...

"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard

I have the program called Starrynight and it lists all the lunar

eclipses,
I did not see any for the date 2/17 for any year in the 90's. I also

set my
program for Manchester,England and looked for it that way and came up

with
zilch.


According to Astronomy Lab, there was a total lunar eclipse
on Feb. 9th, 1990:

Manchester, England Latitude: 53°30'00" N Longitude: 2°15'00" W
Local Time = UT + 0.00 hours Elevation: 0 meters

Lunar eclipse on 2/ 9/1990
Moon rise: 16:56
Moon set: 7:35
Magnitude: 1.07
Partial phase begins: 17:33
Total phase begins: 18:53
Time of maximum eclipse: 19:14
Total phase ends: 19:35
Partial phase ends: 20:56

No partial or total lunar eclipses on Feb. 17th during the 1990's.

Rick




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Old January 18th 04, 10:49 PM
Jacki Diamato
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"Richard Kingdon" wrote in message
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I live in Manchester, England and am sure that on 17th February in the

early
1990s I observed a partial lunar eclipse. However, I cannot find any

record
of this anywhere. Can anyone confirm that this eclipse took place and

tell
me the year in which it occured?

Thanks
Richard
I have a program called Starrynight and I looked in their interesting

events and they did not list it. Also, I went through the 1990's for Feb.
17th and could see no lunar eclipse of any kind.



 




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