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| Lunar Eclipse Feb 20th/08 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 10 2008, 01:17 PM (314 Views) | |
| swanj | Feb 10 2008, 01:17 PM Post #1 |
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Hi All.. For any of You Astronomy Buffs. We have a Total lunar Eclipse Feb 20th. It will be viewable throuout the US. This Animation I created shows the times Pst thru Est time zones. Those of You in the Eastern and Central time zones will see the whole eclipse for beginning to end, because it will be Hi in the sky when it starts. For those of us on the West coast, the eclipse will start prior to Moon Rise, but Total eclipse will be viewable since the Moon will be approx 24 degrees above the horizon from beginning of Totality to end of Totality.. Viewing the Eclipse will of course depend on weather conditions, etc.. SwaneJ ![]() Ps: You may have to view the animation a few times in order to get times for your location. |
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| legitlinda | Feb 10 2008, 07:17 PM Post #2 |
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Swanj, Thanks for going through all that trouble to show us when we can see the eclipse. I'll be watching. Can you give me a reminder post too.... Is there anymore info out there about when and where that satellite is supposed to fall to earth?
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| swanj | Feb 10 2008, 08:42 PM Post #3 |
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I sure will Linda.. I will send a reminder the day before and the morning of the Eclipse. As for the Satellite comming down. No, it hasn't yet, but I'm sure their trying to set its re entry when they can catch Hillary out in the open!! I guess that wasn't funny, but I sure thought it was ! "Tee Hee"Swanj.. |
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| Almtnman | Feb 10 2008, 09:17 PM Post #4 |
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swanj, I would like to do some star gazing, but I don't want to get in it in a big time way. I was thinking of getting myself an Orion ST80 so I could watch the stars and use it also as a spotting scope. Would it work? |
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| legitlinda | Feb 14 2008, 03:02 PM Post #5 |
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Here's an update on the satellite that's going to fall to earth in the first week of March. They're going to destroy it with a missile. Fox News Story
Maybe they can shoot it down over Iran! |
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| Ali | Feb 20 2008, 10:48 PM Post #6 |
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We stood outside for about as long as we could stand it (baby it's cold out there!), but we've got a lot of clouds tonight and couldn't see a thing. Wish we could've gotten a picture. I heard today that the falling satellite might best be viewed in the Northwest. |
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| legitlinda | Feb 20 2008, 11:08 PM Post #7 |
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Ali, Bummer, I couldn't see it either because of the clouds. My friend who lives in the mountains in Arizona watched it and said it was beautiful. I wonder if they tried to shoot that satellite down after all.They weren't sure if they'd be able to because of the clouds. I would really like to see that. Reminds me of a song....Fly me to the moon....
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| Ali | Feb 21 2008, 12:04 AM Post #8 |
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They did it!! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Missile hits dying US spy satellite By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer 3 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A Navy missile soaring 130 miles above the Pacific smashed a dying and potentially deadly U.S. spy satellite Wednesday and probably destroyed a tank carrying 1,000 pounds of toxic fuel, officials said. Officials had expressed cautious optimism that the missile would hit the satellite, which was the size of a school bus. But they were less certain of hitting the smaller, more problematic fuel tank, whose contents posed what Bush administration officials deemed a potential health hazard to humans if it landed intact. In a statement announcing that the Navy missile struck the satellite, the Pentagon said, "Confirmation that the fuel tank has been fragmented should be available within 24 hours." It made no mention of early indications, but a defense official close to the situation said later that officials monitoring the collision saw what appeared to be an explosion, indicating that the fuel tank was hit. The USS Lake Erie, armed with an SM-3 missile designed to knock down incoming missiles — not orbiting satellites — launched the attack at 10:26 p.m. EST, according to the Pentagon. It hit the satellite about three minutes later as the spacecraft traveled in polar orbit at more than 17,000 mph. Because the satellite was orbiting at a relatively low altitude at the time it was hit by the missile, debris will begin to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere immediately, the Pentagon statement said. "Nearly all of the debris will burn up on re-entry within 24-48 hours and the remaining debris should re-enter within 40 days," it said. The use of the Navy missile amounted to an unprecedented use of components of the Pentagon's missile defense system, designed to shoot down hostile ballistic missiles in flight — not kill satellites. The operation was so extraordinary, with such intense international publicity and political ramifications, that Defense Secretary Robert Gates — not a military commander — was to make the final decision to pull the trigger. The government organized hazardous materials teams, under the code name "Burnt Frost," to be flown to the site of any dangerous or otherwise sensitive debris that might land in the United States or elsewhere. Also, six federal response groups that are positioned across the country by the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been alerted but not activated, FEMA spokesman James McIntyre said. "These are purely precautionary and preparedness actions only," he said. |
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| StringBass | Feb 21 2008, 12:09 AM Post #9 |
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I had to work late tonight, but I caught the last phase of the eclipse when I got home; clear skies in TN. |
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| Almtnman | Feb 21 2008, 07:40 AM Post #10 |
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As the moon was rising early last night it was very clear and vivid in the sky. I went out not once but many times during the eclipse phase and the clouds had it blocked out entirely here. I caught a small glimpse of it once during a small break in the clouds but not enough to see anything. Sure wish that it wasn't cloudy as I was looking forward to seeing it. |
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| legitlinda | Feb 21 2008, 12:28 PM Post #11 |
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That is so amazing that we're capable of hitting such a small target in outer space. |
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| Almtnman | Feb 21 2008, 01:13 PM Post #12 |
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What's even more amazing is that we have sent Russia, China, Iran and a host of other nations a message that we now have successful Star Wars technology to take out satellites in space or incoming ballistic missiles. I think I heard some grumbling already coming from Russia and China.
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