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RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - Carey - 03-08-2016
Tom, what I saw began like a small notch out of the lower sun, then progressed to something like Pac-Man, but a more circular mouth...never did see the more crescent half-sun, when the moon had obscured about 1/2 the sun
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - TomK - 03-08-2016
Carey - I saw it at maximum and think it was a little less than half the moon. It's why I kept saying "roughly" or "about" as I never checked the precise amount of obscuration. I'll figure it out and get back to you!
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - TomK - 03-08-2016
About 55% of the sun was eclipsed at max, a little more than I thought!
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - PunaMauka2 - 03-09-2016
Yesterday I somehow got to wondering how a solar eclipse on the moon might appear as seen from the moon's surface (what we would call a lunar eclipse as seen from Earth. The moon passing through the Earth's shadow).
Found this from NASA giving a description of what a partial solar eclipse on the moon might look like: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/20apr_lunareclipse/
" You're standing on the Moon. It's broad daylight, almost high noon. The Sun is creeping slowly across the sky. How slowly? A lunar day is about 29.5 Earth-days long. So the Sun moves 29.5 times slower than our Earth-sense tells us it should. At that leisurely pace, the Sun approaches a dark but faintly-glowing disk three times its own size.
The disk is Earth with its nightside facing the Moon. You can see moonlit clouds floating over Earth's dark oceans and continents. You can also see a faintly glowing ring of light around the planet--that's Earth's atmosphere with sunlight trickling through it. A telescope would show you Earth's city lights, too. Beautiful.
Then the eclipse begins.
Looking through dark-filtered glasses, you watch the Sun slip behind Earth. Earth's atmosphere, lit from behind, glows red, then redder, a ring of fire the color of sunset, interrupted here and there by the tops of the highest clouds.
Ninety minutes later--patience is required!--only a little bit of the Sun remains poking out over the edge of the planet. Arranged just so, the pair remind you of a giant sparkling diamond ring.
The Sun never completely vanishes because this eclipse is partial, not total. During a total eclipse, Earth would hide the Sun completely, which has the odd effect of turning the Moon blood red. But that's another story. "
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - PunaMauka2 - 03-09-2016
"PM2, the darkness you noticed was more likely due to the clouds than the eclipse."
It was what we here in Volcano refer to as a Nephos Eclipse. An occurrence which is actually quite common. Sometimes constant. At times maddeningly so.
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - macuu222 - 03-09-2016
A passenger on an Alaskan Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu captured the eclipse on video at 35,000 feet last evening. The video is cool but you might want to lower the volume. The commentary is annoying!
http://blog.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/news/eclipse-flight/#more-4572
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - TomK - 03-09-2016
"The commentary is annoying!"
Oh, I don't know, it's like that every night at UKIRT! [
]Thanks for the video link. That was incredible!
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - TomK - 03-09-2016
"Nephos Eclipse"
Clever!
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - TomK - 03-12-2016
Andrew Cooper (Keck engineer) got a nice shot of the partial eclipse from Spencer Beach State Park:
http://darkerview.com/wordpress/?p=18426
RE: Partial solar eclipse on Tue March 8th - opihikao - 03-12-2016
quote:Fantastic! Mahalo again, Mr. Tom.
Originally posted by TomK
Andrew Cooper (Keck engineer) got a nice shot of the partial eclipse from Spencer Beach State Park:
http://darkerview.com/wordpress/?p=18426
We had nary a sight of the eclipse due to cloud cover. However, there were a few moments of "clarity" (when the clouds parted for a minute or two) which were, perhaps, our "ho'ailona". It was eerie, nonetheless.
Aloha to Pam, and all. Rest well.