Monday, January 26, 2009

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....

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

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005

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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.

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

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

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