Latitude dependent characteristics of solar eclipses

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Re: Eclipses

2008-05-16 Thread robic.joel
and give the translation (amusing French charade) if you want . Joël 48°01'25'' N, 1°45'40 O --- http://www.cadrans-solaires.fr/ - Original Message - From: Hans Clugston To: 'Sundial Mailing List' Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: Eclipses My work has kept me

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2008-05-14 Thread Frans W. Maes
kept me away from sundials for a time, but now, in a way, has brought me back. I represent TravelQuest International, the world leader in eclipse chasing tours, and got to wondering if there is a list of dials commemorating eclipses. I did not find much from internet searching. I apologize

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2008-05-14 Thread fer de vries
-zonnewijzerkring.nl Molens http://www.collsemolen.dse.nl Eindhoven, Netherlands lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E - Original Message - From: Hans Clugston To: 'Sundial Mailing List' Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:40 PM Subject: Eclipses My work has kept me away from sundials

Eclipses

2008-05-13 Thread Hans Clugston
My work has kept me away from sundials for a time, but now, in a way, has brought me back. I represent TravelQuest International, the world leader in eclipse chasing tours, and got to wondering if there is a list of dials commemorating eclipses. I did not find much from internet searching. I

Eclipses

1999-07-29 Thread David Higgon
realise you were duped. Of course one thing led to another and after my initial explanation, the next question was how many eclipses the earth gets in a year. At this point I admitted my ignorance of the full facts, but said I knew a group of people who would know chapter and verse on the matter! I

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1999-07-29 Thread Jim_Cobb
that describes itself Welcome to the Eclipse Home Page at the NASA/GSFC Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum. This web site is continually expanding and strives to be the ultimate resource for online information about eclipses. Please contact me with comments

Eclipses

1999-07-29 Thread Patrick Powers
as with the well known office toy where a ball moves erratically between three magnets) is very complicated. The shadow of the moon on the earth is in fact very small and the chances for any misalignment to prevent an eclipse being observed are also high. how many eclipses the earth gets in a year Meeus

Re: Eclipses

1999-07-29 Thread William P Thayer
inflection points. In view of the Earth's mass of 81 moons, the gravicenter mind you is still under the surface of the Earth, but not so close to the center of the Earth: it moves around constantly. That's not trivial either, for us! Number of eclipses: 5 maximum, 2 solar and 3 lunar. Lunar

Re: Eclipses in 1582

1999-02-23 Thread F.Martinelli
In 1582 there were two solar eclipses and three lunar eclipses. Lunar Eclipses were, all of them, of penumbral type and their magnitude was very low, so I think, they could have been appreciated with difficulty or not at all. Anyway, the first one (June 6th) was visible from Mexico City only

Re: Off topic: Eclipses

1999-02-22 Thread Slawomir K. Grzechnik
At 12:41 AM 2/20/99 -0500, you 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

Off topic: Eclipses

1999-02-21 Thread Jim Morrison
I want to thank everyone who responded to my request for information on an historical lunar eclipse. Thanks to Tony Kitto, the correct eclipse was found to be on September 26/27, 1577. The Sundial list is a fabulous resource for practical astronomy information. Best regards, Jim James E.

Re: Eclipses in 1582

1999-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
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

Re: Eclipses in 1582

1999-02-20 Thread Dave Bell
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

Re: Off topic: Eclipses

1999-02-20 Thread fer j. de vries
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

Off topic: Eclipses

1999-02-20 Thread Jim Morrison
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

Penumbral Eclipses are almost invisible

1999-01-24 Thread PsykoKidd
Hi Dialers, It's been my experience that penumbral eclipses are almost invisble, so don't expect too great of a show on Jan 31st. Troy Heck