Difference between revisions of "July 2, 2011"
(Created page with "__NOTOC__ =Moons And Stars= <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --> <em>image by [mailto:rob.kau@gmail.com Rob Kaufman], Bright, Victoria, Australia</em><br />...") |
|||
Line 4: | Line 4: | ||
<!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --> | <!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:<h1> --> | ||
+ | <table class="wiki_table"> | ||
+ | <tr> | ||
+ | <td><!-- ws:start:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14:<img src="/file/view/LPOD-Jul2-11.jpg/239717181/LPOD-Jul2-11.jpg" alt="" title="" /> -->[[File:LPOD-Jul2-11.jpg|LPOD-Jul2-11.jpg]]<!-- ws:end:WikiTextLocalImageRule:14 --><br /> | ||
<em>image by [mailto:rob.kau@gmail.com Rob Kaufman], Bright, Victoria, Australia</em><br /> | <em>image by [mailto:rob.kau@gmail.com Rob Kaufman], Bright, Victoria, Australia</em><br /> | ||
</td> | </td> | ||
− | <td>Fred Espenaks's eclipse [mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | + | <td>Fred Espenaks's eclipse [http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html#LE2011Jun15T site] is the standard reference for the geometric circumstances of an eclipse, but Rob's multiple image montage gives a more dramatic feel for the size of the Earth's shadow that the Moon crossed on June 15. Rob writes, <em>The partial eclipse phase images have been arranged to simulate the Earth's umbral shadow, to scale. The background is a separate image of the starfield in which the eclipse occurred, taken several weeks ago. The uneclipsed full Moon and two images of the penumbral eclipse lead into the partial phases.</em> The juxtaposition of the bright Moon in front of the starry background is a scene we can never witness but it would be an improvement of the universe if we could. Astrologers talk of the Moon being in a particular house of the zodiac but imagine how beautiful it would be if we always saw the Moon against the full panoply of stars. That woud be the best of all worlds.<br /> |
+ | <br /> | ||
+ | <em>[mailto:tychocrater@yahoo.com Chuck Wood]</em><br /> | ||
<br /> | <br /> | ||
<strong>Technical Details</strong><br /> | <strong>Technical Details</strong><br /> |
Revision as of 21:44, 1 January 2015
Moons And Stars
image by Rob Kaufman, Bright, Victoria, Australia |
Fred Espenaks's eclipse site is the standard reference for the geometric circumstances of an eclipse, but Rob's multiple image montage gives a more dramatic feel for the size of the Earth's shadow that the Moon crossed on June 15. Rob writes, The partial eclipse phase images have been arranged to simulate the Earth's umbral shadow, to scale. The background is a separate image of the starfield in which the eclipse occurred, taken several weeks ago. The uneclipsed full Moon and two images of the penumbral eclipse lead into the partial phases. The juxtaposition of the bright Moon in front of the starry background is a scene we can never witness but it would be an improvement of the universe if we could. Astrologers talk of the Moon being in a particular house of the zodiac but imagine how beautiful it would be if we always saw the Moon against the full panoply of stars. That woud be the best of all worlds.
COMMENTS?Click on this icon File:PostIcon.jpg at the upper right to post a comment. |