Regarding Jim Morrisons request for lunar eclipses in 1582. I ran an
astronomical simulation for 1581-1583. There were no (umbral) lunar eclipses
that were visible in both Madrid and Mexico City. During the actual year of
1582 there were no total lunar eclipses anywhere in the world.
>From Fred Espenak's wonderful Eclipse Pages at NASA, I found the following
two solar eclipses in 1582. The first was total, but of quite short
duration (and) low magnitude, with the maximum 110 degrees East of
Greenwich. The second was Annular, with it's maximum in the southern
hemisphere.
I meant to include the URL for the Eclipse Pages:
http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/eclipse.html
Dave
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Regarding Jim Morrisons request for lunar eclipses in 1582. I ran an
> astronomical simulation for 1581-1583. There were no (umbral) lunar
Jim Morrison wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there in sundial land have a source that gives the
> circumstances of lunar eclipses in 1582? I am trying to help a young man
> with a project related to efforts to determine the longitude of Mexico City
> in that time period. We need an eclipse that is v
Does anyone out there in sundial land have a source that gives the
circumstances of lunar eclipses in 1582? I am trying to help a young man
with a project related to efforts to determine the longitude of Mexico City
in that time period. We need an eclipse that is visible in both Madrid and
Mexic
