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Wouldn't it be a shame if this great phenomena could not be view by most because of the weather we are having?
I believe the south - from Texas to Florida is having great weather and someone might be able to view the eclipse and take picture. A great website to see pictures would be spaceweather.com
The Earth's shadow will begin to blot out the moon at 1:32 am EST...first time in 456 years
Surely, this is not what you wanted to say. Are you saying the Moon hasn't been eclipsed at 1:32am EST since 1554? You have already stated that this is the firs time since 1638 [and not again until 2094] that a TLE has occurred on the winter soltice. I must be reading his wrong.
The skies are perfect here (southeast USA). I hope to wake up when the alarms go off. I would stay up, but I don't think I can make it.
The bad news....I am a complete novice. I have a digital SLR with a 55-250mm lens, tripod and a backup point and shoot with optical zoom. Fingers crossed. Wish me luck!
The skies are perfect here (southeast USA). I hope to wake up when the alarms go off. I would stay up, but I don't think I can make it.
The bad news....I am a complete novice. I have a digital SLR with a 55-250mm lens, tripod and a backup point and shoot with optical zoom. Fingers crossed. Wish me luck!
Surely, this is not what you wanted to say. Are you saying the Moon hasn't been eclipsed at 1:32am EST since 1554? You have already stated that this is the firs time since 1638 [and not again until 2094] that a TLE has occurred on the winter soltice. I must be reading his wrong.
Nono... it's all about the lunar eclipse that comes at the same time as the Winter Solstice. This combination didn't happen since 1638.
Nono... it's all about the lunar eclipse that comes at the same time as the Winter Solstice. This combination didn't happen since 1638.
Turns out the date we have for the most recent lunar eclipse/solstice combo is just plain wrong. This may be TMI, but at the time we were editing the story late last week, NASA was going with the 1378 date.
^^^ yeah, I saw that.
Coincidences: This lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Using NASA's 5000 year catalog of lunar eclipses and JPL's HORIZONS ephemeris to match eclipses and solstices, author Dr. Tony Phillips had to go back to the year 1378 to find a similar "winter solstice lunar eclipse."
But then this most recent update:
Coincidences (UPDATED): This lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," says Chester. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one...that will be on 2094 DEC 21." Solstice Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science
So, what year was it?
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