Grazing the Umbra (PLE 2009)

Dear group,

We were very fortunate to have relatively very good conditions for
this evening's partial lunar eclipse and which was a great way to end
the year, the decade as well as IYA 2009.

Although the depth was only 8%, the moon's partial entry into the
umbral shadow was quite obvious both naked eye as well as through the
telescope at high power. For a time series with exposures spaced 30
minutes apart and which documents the moon's entry into the penumbra
and umbra as well as its consequent exit, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-12-31b.htm .

Best wishes to everyone for the New Year filled with health and
prosperity!

Anthony.

On 12/31/09 5:52 PM, Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:
Dear group,

We were very fortunate to have relatively very good conditions for
this evening's partial lunar eclipse and which was a great way to end
the year, the decade as well as IYA 2009.

Although the depth was only 8%, the moon's partial entry into the
umbral shadow was quite obvious both naked eye as well as through the
telescope at high power. For a time series with exposures spaced 30
minutes apart and which documents the moon's entry into the penumbra
and umbra as well as its consequent exit, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-12-31b.htm .

Best wishes to everyone for the New Year filled with health and
prosperity!

Anthony.

Wow! Thanks Anthony... I was bemoaning I couldn't see any of the
eclipse here. You gave this eclipse life for me! Thank You!
-Sam

On 1 Éáí, 02:32, Sam Wormley wrote:
On 12/31/09 5:52 PM, Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:





Dear group,

We were very fortunate to have relatively very good conditions for
this evening's partial lunar eclipse and which was a great way to end
the year, the decade as well as IYA 2009.

Although the depth was only 8%, the moon's partial entry into the
umbral shadow was quite obvious both naked eye as well as through the
telescope at high power. For a time series with exposures spaced 30
minutes apart and which documents the moon's entry into the penumbra
and umbra as well as its consequent exit, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-12-31b.htm.

Best wishes to everyone for the New Year filled with health and
prosperity!

Anthony.

* *Wow! Thanks Anthony... I was bemoaning I couldn't see any of the
* *eclipse here. You gave this eclipse life for me! Thank You!
* *-Sam

Best wishes my friend for the New Year. You and I may be astrologers
( ;-) ) but we love this incredible preoccupation.

Anthony.

Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:

We were very fortunate to have relatively very good conditions for
this evening's partial lunar eclipse and which was a great way to end
the year, the decade as well as IYA 2009.

Although the depth was only 8%, the moon's partial entry into the
umbral shadow was quite obvious both naked eye as well as through the
telescope at high power. For a time series with exposures spaced 30
minutes apart and which documents the moon's entry into the penumbra
and umbra as well as its consequent exit, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-12-31b.htm .

Best wishes to everyone for the New Year filled with health and
prosperity!

Lovely! Your photo brings me some cheer as I sit at the table reading,
feeling a bit sorry for myself as I see and hear the sleet falling
outside. New Year's Eve or not, public places tonight are populated
mainly by mad dogs and Englishmen. Thanks!

Davoud

--
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

On Jan 1, 12:46*am, Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:
On 1 Éáí, 02:32, Sam Wormley wrote:





On 12/31/09 5:52 PM, Anthony Ayiomamitis wrote:

Dear group,

We were very fortunate to have relatively very good conditions for
this evening's partial lunar eclipse and which was a great way to end
the year, the decade as well as IYA 2009.

Although the depth was only 8%, the moon's partial entry into the
umbral shadow was quite obvious both naked eye as well as through the
telescope at high power. For a time series with exposures spaced 30
minutes apart and which documents the moon's entry into the penumbra
and umbra as well as its consequent exit, please see
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Eclipses-2009-12-31b.htm.

Best wishes to everyone for the New Year filled with health and
prosperity!

Anthony.

* *Wow! Thanks Anthony... I was bemoaning I couldn't see any of the
* *eclipse here. You gave this eclipse life for me! Thank You!
* *-Sam

Best wishes my friend for the New Year. You and I may be astrologers
( ;-) ) but we love this incredible preoccupation.

Anthony.

I have been unfair to the old astrologers Anthony in designating you
and the rest of the empiricists here as being astrologers,I retract
the term as it applies to you , Sam or anyone else who makes something
of the Ra/Dec framework as it applies to planetary dynamics,solar
system structure or any other astronomical focal point.

If you talk to Tezel you both would already know that there is no room
in the celestial arena for a wandering analemma Sun as the
observations known to all genuine astronomers and the ancient
astrologers is that the planets wander while the Sun does not over the
course of an annual cycle ,these observations constitute all known
differences between the astrological geocentric system and the
astronomical one based on planetary dynamics -

"Moreover, we see the other five planets also retrograde at times, and
stationary at either end [of the regression]. And whereas the sun
always advances along its
own direct path, they wander in various ways, straying sometimes to
the south and sometimes to the north; that is why they are called
"planets" [wanderers]. Copernicus

Copernicus admiringly notes the views of the Greek astrologers/
astronomers and their different perspectives on solar system structure
and especially the use of the motions of the planets against the
background constellations and then sets about putting these
observations in context of the Earth's planetary dynamics -

"With regard to Venus and Mercury, however, differences of opinion are
found. For, these planets do not pass through every elongation from
the sun, as the other planets do. Hence Venus and Mercury are located
above the sun by some authorities, like Plato's Timaeus [38 D], but
below the sun by others, like Ptolemy [Syntaxis, IX, 1] and many of
the modems. Al-Bitruji places Venus above the sun, and Mercury below
it. " Copernicus

In short Anthony,you present the image of Ephiates rather than the
noble heritage of the astronomical Greeks for one who continues
promoting distortions which dishonor your heritage or,what amounts to
the same thing - promote the false Ra/Dec one,at least in terms of
planetary dynamics,you block many from rediscovering their
astronomical heritage and how it transforms dramatically from
geocentricity to the astronomy of planetary dynamics.I can't see how
you can live with it when it is just easier to promote your imaging in
context of Ra/Dec as a calendar based convenience which has its
limits.