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Eclipse
Posted:
Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:22 pmby Thiele
If anybody can't see it hear is awebsite where you can watch it
http://www.discoverychannel.com.au/eclipse/
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:31 pmby Wedgie
Nice of the cloud to clear up for us tonight as it was 99% cloud at 5pm but now totally clear.
Watched the shadow creep across before and had a look now and its red, looks great.
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:34 pmby Thiele
Just went outside to have alook and it was excellent
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:38 pmby Dirko
Down town Lockleys looks quite funky ! Just spent 5 minutes trying to explain to my 5yr old what a eclipse was !
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:45 pmby Thiele
Looks even better off the net
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:06 pmby JAS
Had an eclipse here earlier in the year...very impressive. Great webcam images thanks for the link Thiele
Lovely shots of the moon bunny
Regards
JAS
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:15 pmby Booney
SJABC wrote:Down town Lockleys looks quite funky ! Just spent 5 minutes trying to explain to my 5yr old what a eclipse was !
err,am I the only one who had people older than 5 to explain it too?
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:24 pmby Dirko
Yep ! My two year old wasn't really bothered and my nine month old was asleep ! The missus reckons she knows what one is
!
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:15 pmby Pseudo
Curiously it was easy enough to view with the naked eye, but hard to see with binoculars... just too dim.
Re: Eclipse
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Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:36 pmby mal
SJABC wrote:Down town Lockleys looks quite funky ! Just spent 5 minutes trying to explain to my 5yr old what a eclipse was !
Did you tell her it was an Italian hairdresser
Re: Eclipse
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Wed Aug 29, 2007 10:07 amby smac
Booney wrote:SJABC wrote:Down town Lockleys looks quite funky ! Just spent 5 minutes trying to explain to my 5yr old what a eclipse was !
err,am I the only one who had people older than 5 to explain it too?
Nah boon, I explained it all to smac jr (9). And I noticed Mrs smac listening intently to the explanation...
Re: Eclipse
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Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:56 amby mighty_tiger_79
not sure if anybody would have seen the moon about a week ago at 3am it was hovering low over the ocean and it was bright red then as well, much brighter then what it was last night
Re: Eclipse
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Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:38 pmby Pseudo
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:not sure if anybody would have seen the moon about a week ago at 3am it was hovering low over the ocean and it was bright red then as well, much brighter then what it was last night
"It is a commonly held belief that the Moon appears larger
near the horizon as a result of some kind of magnification effect caused by the Earth's atmosphere. This is not true, although
the atmosphere does change the color of the Moon. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_illusion