Lunar eclipse tomorrow
By llauren on Mar 3, 2007 in english, geek
In about 24 hours from now, there’ll be a total lunar eclipse. What’s nifty to near-spiritual levels is that the economy eclipse (damn PDA autosuggest:) can be observed nearly anywhere on this world.
I hope our weather will be a bit more permitting for moon-gazing activities then..
what time will it be visible in hungary. my son is over there, (we live in iowa in the US) and i am trying to get him to do some photography for me.
boji | Mar 3, 2007 | Reply
In Hungary,the total eclipse starts a quarter to midnight and ends an hour after that. As you probably read in the NASA post, you’re not going to see the totality in Iowa, because the moon simply ain’t up by then… (i was about to say that “since the eclipse is visible around the world, you should be able to catch it in Iowa too”, but that wasn’t fair)
The NASA page (see my link in the original post) says the time for the total eclipse is 5:44 pm to 6:58 pm Standard Eastern Time (New York?) and 22:44–23:57 UT (which is what regular folks call Greenwich time). Checking with World Time and Date indicates that the show starts at a quarter to midnight in Budapest, a quarter to five pm in Iowa and -ungh- a quarter to one, in the middle of the night, here in Helsinki.
Well, actually the show starts one hour fifteen minutes before that with a partial eclipse growing into a full eclipse, and then there’s the afterparty between midnight and 02:23 UT, but having seen the full thing, i’d think a half-eclipse ain’t that impressive anymore…
llauren | Mar 3, 2007 | Reply
No entäs sitten Helsingin Alppilassa?
Nikke | Mar 3, 2007 | Reply
Humoristi
llaurén | Mar 3, 2007 | Reply