Author Topic: When you watch the sky... (Read 279970 times)

Persephone · « **Reply #380 on:** April 18, 2011, 07:44:08 pm »

All routes lead to Prague!

(and none from Prague)

Lucy · « **Reply #381 on:** April 18, 2011, 09:17:12 pm »

Markus · « **Reply #382 on:** April 18, 2011, 11:30:54 pm »

Wow, thank you for telling us! That must have been quite a sight, Luth!

That street... oh... reminds me of our moments at the sea. See you again this August, miladies, respectively for the first time!

Cheers!

Markus

Markus · « **Reply #383 on:** April 26, 2011, 11:11:05 am »

Hey folks,

I just found a beautiful video of a sunset with clear green flashes.

Enjoy and cheers!

Markus

Lady Sa'iltu · « **Reply #384 on:** April 27, 2011, 08:33:46 pm »

Incredibly beautiful video!

Lucy · « **Reply #385 on:** April 28, 2011, 05:29:33 pm »

I've never seen anything like this.

Thanks for sharing!

Persephone · « **Reply #386 on:** April 28, 2011, 08:44:23 pm »

I'm unable to play it

Luth · « **Reply #387 on:** April 28, 2011, 09:19:30 pm »

It's a wmv...

Really beautiful video Markus! Thanks for sharing!

Markus · « **Reply #388 on:** May 05, 2011, 05:15:34 am »

Hey folks,

look West right after sunset tonight - when the skies are clear you should be able to see a lovely lunar crescent.

Good luck and cheers!

Markus

Markus · « **Reply #389 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:00:32 pm »

My friends,

when the sun sets this Wednesday (i.e. tomorrow) watch out for the moon rising right opposite the sun. It will be in eclipse!

There will be a total lunar eclipse on the night from Wednesday to Thursday. It will be unusually long (1 hour 40 minutes of totality) and unusually deep as the moon crosses almost right through the middle of Earth's shadow. See spaceweather.com for details.

And mainly see the moon in total eclipse! It rises eclipsed for Europeans, but as the night sets in you can see the red colour and the subtle differences in brightness on the lunar surface, both changing over time as the moon progresses through our shadow. Maximum eclipse occurs at 22:13 CEDT and totality ends at 23:03 CEDT. You can see the moon still partly inside the dark core shadow of the Earth until 0:02 CEDT.

Don't miss this, please! You'll find the moon rather low in the Southeast, progressing higher and westward ("up and right"). The moon might become unusually dark due to the deep eclipse and due to volcanic ash in the air - or it might not, you never know. But it WILL look beautiful in any case. Luth, I envy your sight across the sea!

Cheers!

Markus Umbraphilus

Luth · « **Reply #390 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:02:37 pm »

If the moon is visible from the beach, I intend to make a photo of Her

Markus · « **Reply #391 on:** June 14, 2011, 09:28:20 pm »

Was that a conditional clause, oh Regina Anglissima Mea?

Anyway, if you make a photo of the eclipsed moon I intend to enjoy it a lot! Perhaps Mr. Eclipse can help you with instructions or just inspiration from his galleries.

Cheers!

Markus

Luth · « **Reply #392 on:** June 14, 2011, 10:05:46 pm »

Well... if not seen from the beach, buidlings won't let us make a good photo, that's all

Don't expect a good high quality picture if I manage... very few zoom in my camera

Markus · « **Reply #393 on:** June 15, 2011, 05:04:31 am »

That's why I was suggesting Mr. Eclipse, milady.

If I remember well he has some ideas for wide-angle-shots, too.

Cheers!

Markus

Luth · « **Reply #394 on:** June 15, 2011, 05:24:38 am »

I had no time to read that site, but it's not only the angle, but the visibility itself. If the Moon is hidden behind the buildings, angle or not angle, I won't be able to watch it

Markus · « **Reply #395 on:** June 15, 2011, 06:32:12 pm »

If it's hidden behind the clouds I won't be able to see it, either.

Death to the clouds!

DEEEEAAAAATH!

A-hem. Good luck, I meant to say, and enjoy the eclipse.

Cheers!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #396 on:** June 15, 2011, 06:41:23 pm »

It's cloudy here too

I suppose we won't see anything.

Markus · « **Reply #397 on:** June 16, 2011, 12:10:00 am »

Too bad - it was cloudy here all the time.

Of course I saw the moon through the clouds on my way back home, after the eclipse had ended.

Cheers, anyway!

Markus

Persephone · « **Reply #398 on:** June 16, 2011, 08:50:24 am »

I'm sorry

Here it was completely cloudy whole night. No moon visible.

When is the next eclipse?

Markus · « **Reply #399 on:** June 16, 2011, 10:03:20 am »

Oh well, it's not the end of the world.

Luckily I've seen many eclipses before so I can take this failure more easily. Of course it would have been beautiful... when I find good pictures on the net I'll show you some.

It's quite a bad joke, though, that now the sun is really scorching from the sky.

The next one? That will be on the 10th of December. There will be two more solar eclipses this year, but they will only be partials seen from the South-pole-region. The lunar eclipse in December will be quite unfavourable for Europeans as the moon will rise during the eclipse - most of the event will take place before the moon has risen for us so we will only see the last stages.

The next Solar eclipses visible from Europe will be 3rd of November 2013 (only for the Royal Couple

) and 20th of March 2015. The next decent lunar eclipses for us will be 28th of September 2015 and 27th of July 2018.

Next year, be sure not to miss the transit of Venus: No person alive today has seen more than one of these, and the next chance after 2012 will be in 2117.

Cheers!

Markus

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