Here is a Video showing the Total Solar Eclipse of the Century. The video streaming was chopped sometimes. A cloudy Eclipse this time in China. Hope you enjoy.
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mercredi 22 juillet 2009
mardi 21 juillet 2009
The Indian Air Force will deploy two aircraft Wednesday filled with military scientists to observe the total eclipse of the Sun of July 22th 2009 that will plunge Asia into darkness, announced the indian armed forces.
Here’s what the moon’s shadow looks like on earth during a total solar eclipse. Taken on the Russian Space Station Mir, 11 August 1999.
Indian researchers will be on abord of a Russian plane of transporting troops from Agra (north of india), where stands the famous Taj Mahal, and follow the shadow of the solar eclipse to the town of Khajuraho (center of india).
The aircraft will fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,570 meters), above the clouds of the monsoon, which threaten to spoil on the ground the show.
A combat aircraft Mirage-2000 of the Indian Air Force will also track the celestial phenomenon to take the most photographies.
To learn more about the July 22th total Eclipse click here. The aircraft will fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet (7,570 meters), above the clouds of the monsoon, which threaten to spoil on the ground the show.
A combat aircraft Mirage-2000 of the Indian Air Force will also track the celestial phenomenon to take the most photographies.
lundi 20 juillet 2009
The solar eclipse that will take place on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 will be a total eclipse of the Sun with a magnitude of 1.080 that will be visible from a narrow corridor through northern India, eastern Nepal, northern Bangladesh, Bhutan, the northern tip of Myanmar, central China and the Pacific Ocean, including the Ryukyu Islands, Marshall Islands and Kiribati.
After leaving mainland Asia, the path crosses Japan's Ryukyu Islands and curves southeast through the Pacific Ocean where the maximum duration of totality reaches 6 min 39 s. A partial eclipse is seen within the much broader path of the Moon's penumbral shadow, which includes most of eastern Asia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Ocean.
Follow The Shadow
Image Credit NASA
lundi 19 janvier 2009
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Linked article: Annular Solar Eclipse 26th January
Credit picture: Nasa
mardi 13 janvier 2009
Annular Solar Eclipse at High Resolution
Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip
The first Solar Eclipse of 2009 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in western Capricornus.
At 06:06 UT The annular path begins in the South Atlantic when the Moon's antumbral shadow meets Earth and forms a 363 kilometres wide corridor. Traveling eastward, the shadow quickly sweeps south of the African continent, missing it by approximately 900 kilometres.
Slowly curving to the northeast the path crosses the southern Indian Ocean. Greatest eclipse takes place at 07:58:39 UT when the eclipse magnitude will reach 0.9282. At this instant, the annular duration is 7 minutes 54 seconds, the path width is 280 kilometres and the Sun is 73° above the flat horizon formed by the open ocean. The central track continues northeast where it finally encounters land in the form of the Cocos Islands and onward to southern Sumatra and western Java .
At 09:40 UT, the central line duration is 6 minutes 18 seconds and the Sun's altitude at 25°. In its final minutes, the antumbral shadow cuts across central Borneo and clips the northwestern edge of Celebes before ending just short of Mindanao, Philippines at 09:52 UT.
During a 3 hour 46 minute trajectory across our planet, the Moon's antumbra travels approximately 14,500 kilometres and covers 0.9% of Earth's surface area.
This year Solar Eclipses
January 26th, 2009
Kind: Annular Eclipse
Maximum Duration: 7 min 54 S
Area of visibility: South of India, Sumatra, Borneo
July 22th, 2009
Kind: Total Eclipse
Maximum Duration: 6 min 39 S
Area of visibility: India, Nepal, China, islands of the south of Japan, the western Pacific
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