Moony
So I got up at 230am to go look at the moon.
Lunar eclipses are kinda boring, actually.
A halfway-occulted moon just looks like a normal half-moon, rolled over on its side.
At 230 in the morning, anyway.
In related and ubergeeky news... there really was a solar eclipse in Kyoto in 1671, but it was only about 14% occluded, not the total eclipse shown in the season finale of Heroes. But it still makes for good TV :) There WAS a near-total eclipse there in 1641, though.
To kill time on a Tuesday morning, here are calculators for solar and lunar eclipses throughout time. Plug in a city, pick a century, and it will spit back the eclipses and their magnitudes.
Solar
Lunar
Lunar eclipses are kinda boring, actually.
A halfway-occulted moon just looks like a normal half-moon, rolled over on its side.
At 230 in the morning, anyway.
In related and ubergeeky news... there really was a solar eclipse in Kyoto in 1671, but it was only about 14% occluded, not the total eclipse shown in the season finale of Heroes. But it still makes for good TV :) There WAS a near-total eclipse there in 1641, though.
To kill time on a Tuesday morning, here are calculators for solar and lunar eclipses throughout time. Plug in a city, pick a century, and it will spit back the eclipses and their magnitudes.
Solar
Lunar