A visual presentation of astronomy by way of animated and static graphics. Many events happening in both the day and night time sky can be better explained by animated and visual graphics of the event. A total eclipse of the Moon (lunar eclipse) can be better appreciated by seeing how the Moon passes through the Earth's shadow by way of an animated graphic. An eclipse of the Sun (solar eclipse) can be enjoyed more if an animated graphic can show where the shadow of the Moon crosses the Earth, or how it appears to the observer on the ground. A comet crossing the sky can be better understood if one knows how it is traveling around the Sun, as well as, how it moves between the planets. A picture is worth a thousand words. Graphics showing these events are visually helpful in conveying the wonder and fulfilling the understanding of our universe.
My brother in Corpus Christi, TX took this picture of the eclipse with a Minolta digital camera at maximum zoom (no telephoto) on a tripod.
Austin Jolly - Houston, Texas |
Jo Fox - Orlando, Florida |
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Our Moon gliding through the Earth's shadow.
| A static image of above can be found by clicking here. A high resolution Flash file of above graphic can be found by clicking here. The graphic above was created in Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady . |
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| Partial Eclipse Ends | Total Eclipse Ends | Mid-Eclipse | Total Eclipse Begins |
Partial Eclipse Begins |
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12:54am EDT |
11:45pm EDT |
11:04pm EDT |
10:23pm 0EDT |
9:14pm 0EDT |
11:54pm CDT |
10:45pm CDT |
10:04pm CDT |
9:23pm 0CDT |
8:14pm 0CDT |
10:54pm MDT |
09:45pm MDT |
9:04pm MDT |
8:23pm MDT |
7:14pm .MDT |
09:54pm PDT |
08:45pm PDT |
8:04pm 0PDT |
7:23pm 0PDT |
6:14pm 0.PDT |
| 04:54 UT |
03:45 UT |
03:04 UT |
02:23 UT |
01:14 UT |
The total eclipse of the Moon will last 1 hour 22 minutes. The entire eclipse will last 3 hours 40 minutes.
Penumbral times were not included because the events cannot be seen. To learn more about the "nuts and bolts" of a lunar eclipse, please visit http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html. What is UT or Universal Time that is shown above? Please click here! |
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October's lunar eclipse as seen among the stars at 10:04pm CDT facing east-south-east. This is when the Moon will be at its darkest on that Wednesday night, October 2004. The above static graphic was generated by using Starry Night Pro and Photoshop specifically for the Moon. |
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Want to see how the lunar eclipse will appear from your state? Move your mouse and place your cursor over a state you are interested in above and click. Another window will pop-up showing you a movie of the lunar eclipse as it will appear in the sky above your state. Each file for each state begins at 14 minutes past the hour (for example, in the Central Daylight Time zone, partial eclipse begins at 8:14pm). There are 44 frames per movie with each frame representing 5 minutes of elapse time. The last frame is at 11:54pm CDT. These files were generated in Starry Night Pro. The outputted files are Apple quicktime files (*.mov). Alaska has two hot spots to click (on the above map) with one in Juneau and the other in King Salmon. You will note that Hawaii will see very little of this eclipse. East coast states will see the Moon highest in a darkened sky at the beginning of the partial phase. As you move further west, the Moon can be found closer to the horizon with the evening twilight interfering somewhat with viewers in the western states at the start of the partial phase. None-the-less, the lower 48 plus Alaska will see the Moon totally eclipsed! |
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Updated on November 9, 2004