Moon Shadow

It had been almost 10 years since the last eclipse i saw when i was in poly.
That reminds me of the times i had in the Ngee Ann Astronomy Club.
Whenever i goes for a part time study in a uni, sometimes i would see members of the club having activities, is still alive and well..
Years had pass, but the wonders of Astronomy never ends to fascinate me.

The last eclipse in singapore was in 1998. This years eclipse will have 70% of the sun been covered. Indonesia will have their total eclipse in southen sumatra ans may be some parts of java. People obvious to their surroundings will notice a slight dim of the sun at around 530.

Below are pictures of the eclipse i taken with a good friend out in a big grass field near my place.... He manage to dig out his solar filter that was use before, when we are at the Ngee Ann Astronomy club back in the days in.

Some of the pics are 'blurry' because of the cloud cover.
Most of the pics are taken by him....


First contact..notice the very small edge of the moon, at bottom left.






Almost looking like the moon.

If you people miss this, don't worry, there will 3 more Eclipses coming, up to 2019.
2019 will be a major one.

All the time are in greenwich mean time. I haven convert them yet.




2016 March 9 Wednesday, Greenwich: 11h 32m 06.872s
Partial Solar Eclipse
Magnitude=88.991%, Obscuration=86.875%,




2019 December 26 Thursday, Greenwich: 11h 41m 07.240s
Annular Solar Eclipse
Magnitude=97.078%, Obscuration=94.242%,

___Sky in Motion___

An amazing video found in vimeo.
It shows the sky moving! ^^ or time leapse recording.
With a nice background music. It makes you wonder on how peaceful the world without the troubles, that man had created.

More : http://www.theskyinmotion.com/

Enjoy !!

2009 what next...

2008 the year come and past quickly. Time sure flies.
Whats next for the year 2009 ? I don't have anything to look forward to execpt for my Kyoto trip ha..
Is it alearly seen as a doom and gloom year as the financal crisis had only begin to take its effects. The US had it mess up big time. Must save up money..who knows if kana retrench.
And the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas... the unfortunate cilvilians who are caught in between. For this conflict i personally feel that it is Hamas fault. They keep on firing rockets over the gaza border to Israel even the cease first deal was in effect. The Arab world did not say anything about it. When Israel hit back, they protest. This is very disgusting. And who will not react if someone keep one shooting at your house. Israel had been very very patience alearly, but this time theirs run out. Those Hama leadership sucks i say, they puposely had their buidings place among civilian areas. Recent news got information that the Hamas leaders are hiding in mosque and hospitals.... Haiz the never ending circle of violent. As long as humans exist there are never to be peace.
Thats why i aways hate it when people wish for world peace in new year wishes. Hope there will be but it will take a long long time to wait for.
I will take a step ata time for this new year. n_n ""