Posted on 05/28/2012 5:38:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Have you contemplated your home star recently? Pictured above, a Sun partially eclipsed on the top left by the Moon is also seen eclipsed by earthlings contemplating the eclipse below. The above menagerie of silhouettes was taken from the Glenn Canyon National Recreational Area near Page, Arizona, USA, where park rangers and astronomers expounded on the unusual event to interested gatherers. Also faintly visible on the Sun's disk, just to the lower right of the dark Moon's disk, is a group of sunspots. Although exciting, some consider this event a warm-up act for next week's chance to comtemplate the Sun -- a much more rare partial eclipse by the planet Venus.
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[Credit & Copyright: Steven Gilbert]
Very Cool!
Yep, the biggest H-bomb within four and a half light years. 600 million tons per second of exploding hydrogen nuclei, with us huddled near it like insects around a street light.
“huddled near it like insects around a street light”...
Great mental image! I’ll be huddling poolside!!
“huddled near it like insects around a street light”...
Great mental image! I’ll be huddling poolside!!
sorry - accidently clicked twice
Well I hope at least we keep a safe distance from anyone or anything we may be become a nuisance to. We’re not here by chance, though. It’s that big power source that makes it possible.
GREAT picture! Normally we expect to see buildings, trees, or hills along the bottom of such a scene, not people. Extra neato cool!
That’s about as much eclipse as we got. But we had a high overcast that was blocking a lot of light that day. I had to project through my binocular’s objective lens to get an image on paper.
It was overcast here, plus I had a lot going on, alas.
Don’t forget the transit of Venus, moving in front of the the sun June 5.
No one currently alive on this planet will ever see it again.
Pessimist. ;’)
Artificial transits of Venus and Mercury (and eventually, the Earth) will probably be at least trivially available from satellites in a few decades.
And thanks for the reminder, btw!
http://www.transitofvenus.org/june2012/eye-safety/281-six-ways-to-see-the-transit-of-venus
This is interesting!
http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/%7Ehemh/transit.htm
Yeah, but I posted you a couple of crappy pictures. Not a word. You could have at least said, "Well, those suck". ;-)
We’re doomed.
I’d be happy to say that, but the truth is, I must have missed them. :’(
I’m sure they’re great, btw. :’)
NO....wait...here they are...I'll try typing with both fingers...
The Sony DCR-SX44 is the worst F@#$$%^ Handycam on the market. And as luck would have it...
They’re really cool pictures, Fred! You did a great job on them.
Very cool for research etc., but kind of like seeing something on TV. Not quite the same as in real time, with your own eyes.
But I would like to see an earth transit.
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