Answers for Allensbank
After a recent talk at Allensbank Primary School, I received questions for many of the children. Here are answer to three of them…
Tag Archives: Moon
My Red Blue Moon
A really quick to show my snaps of yesterday’s partial lunar eclipse, on a blue moon. You can see the little bite taken out of the Moon on the lower-right, caused by the Earth’s shadow. Happy New Year. Photos above and below using different processing.
Blue Moon Eclipse
So here’s something that totally passed me by: there is a partial lunar eclipse tonight! Thanks to Astropixie and Astronomy Blog for pointing it out – I would have missed it otherwise. This is an event where the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth. In this case the Moon is only partially covered [...]
Bombing the Moon
On Friday, NASA’s LCROSS Moon mission ended with the probe taking a nose dive onto the Lunar surface. This was all planned and was a great way to see what lay underneath the surface at the Moon’s intriguing South Pole. LCROSS was impacting inside a crater that is perpetually in shadow. Such conditions could allow [...]
Make Your Own Moonwatch
Next week is Moonwatch week and if you’re holding an event locally you might want to use one of these posters to advertise it on your front gate or local lamp posts. A Twitter success story.
Triple Conjunction
I took some images of the triple conjunction of Jupiter, Venus and the Moon. It was a very pretty event, and I’ve hardly done it justice, but I thought I’d add my photos into the mix.
Police say UFO was Just the Moon
I love that this happened just down the road from where I live. Police called out to a 999 call about an unexplained object in the night sky solved the mystery straight away for their when they realised it was actually the Moon. Well worth listening to.
Earth and Friends in Multiple Wavelengths
There is a lot more to the universe than the light you and I can pick up with our eyes and brains. Although its a shame that we can’t see them naturally we can use technology to reveal the wavelengths of light normally invisible to us. Visible light is only part of the electromagnetic spectrum (a very small part) and I thought it would be interesting to see some familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.
Solar Eclipse 2008
August 1st 2008 will see a solar eclipse visible across much of Asia, Europe, the Middle East and some portions of North America. The eclipse is often being called the 2008 Olympic Eclipse because it comes just days before the commencement of the Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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