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Não sei onde vocês estão, mas hoje há uma passagem visível em Lisboa.
http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_st ... 8554530173
http://esa.heavens-above.com/esa/iss_st ... 8554530173
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Atomez Escreveu:Estas imagens são espectaculares -- o Shuttle atracado à ISS passando em frente ao Sol
Atomez, ainda bem que disseste o que era senão mais parecia uma tatuagem numa qualquer parte do corpo!

Abraço.
Editado pela última vez por atomez em 29/7/2009 3:43, num total de 1 vez.
As pessoas são tão ingénuas e tão agarradas aos seus interesses imediatos que um vigarista hábil consegue sempre que um grande número delas se deixe enganar.
Niccolò Machiavelli
http://www.facebook.com/atomez
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Não quero estragar o topico ao Elias mas penso que se enquadra no mesmo.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090728/ ... U8yTeCfNdF
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090728/ ... U8yTeCfNdF
"Só duas coisas são infinitas, o universo e a estupidez humana. Mas no que respeita ao universo ainda não tenho a certeza" Einstein
“Com os actuais meios de acesso à informação, a ignorância não é uma fatalidade, mas uma escolha pessoal" Eu
“Com os actuais meios de acesso à informação, a ignorância não é uma fatalidade, mas uma escolha pessoal" Eu
Elias Escreveu:creepy Escreveu:vou andar atento... qd é o próximo!!!???
Agora só no dia 7 de Setembro
Ellias,
vou mesmo andar atento ao desnrolar das informações sobre esse fenómeno...
vai ser dos grandes ou só mais um!!!???
atenção que sou um bebé de 2 anos nesta matéria!!! posso tar a dizer bacoradas!!!!!
abraço e muito obrigado
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Excelente!
Hoje voltou a ver-se o Shuttle separado da ISS
Hoje voltou a ver-se o Shuttle separado da ISS

As pessoas são tão ingénuas e tão agarradas aos seus interesses imediatos que um vigarista hábil consegue sempre que um grande número delas se deixe enganar.
Niccolò Machiavelli
http://www.facebook.com/atomez
Niccolò Machiavelli
http://www.facebook.com/atomez
Hoje teremos mais uma passagem da ISS às 22h38. Dado que esta passagem ocorre bastante tarde (isto é, mais de uma hora e meia depois do pôr-do-sol), a estação espacial desaparecerá a meio da passagem, quando mergulhar na sombra da Terra.
A passagem de hoje vê-se melhor no sul do país (especialmente no Algarve, mas também na zona de Lisboa).
Parece que o Endeavour anda lá por cima, com sorte numa das próximas passagens acontece vê-lo também junto à ISS, como sucedeu em 17 de Março (ver página 5 deste thread).
A passagem de hoje vê-se melhor no sul do país (especialmente no Algarve, mas também na zona de Lisboa).
Parece que o Endeavour anda lá por cima, com sorte numa das próximas passagens acontece vê-lo também junto à ISS, como sucedeu em 17 de Março (ver página 5 deste thread).
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Atenção à passagem da Estação Espacial Internacional!
Vamos ter 5 passagens brilhantes em 6 dias, todas facilmente visíveis em Portugal, o que constitui uma autêntica sequência de luxo! As cinco passagens serão visíveis em todo o país, sendo que a primeira e a terceira serão mais facilmente visíveis no norte, ao passo que as restantes se verão melhor no sul do território continental.
Em todas as ocasiões a estação espacial vem de noroeste (do Atlântico) para sueste (na direcção do sul de Espanha / Marrocos). Aqui ficam os detalhes:
23 Julho - 22h13 às 22h17 - mais favorável no norte do país; passa sobre a Galiza, ligeiramente a norte de Bragança - (em Lisboa: passa 40 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste; no Porto: passa 68 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste, quase na vertical)
24 Julho - 22h38 às 22h41 - mais favorável no sul do país; passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 52 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 54 graus sobre o horizonte a oeste e depois desaparece na sombra)
25 Julho - 21h27 às 21h33 - mais favorável no norte do país; passa na vertical de Chaves - (em Lisboa: passa 43 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste no Porto: passa 72 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste, quase na vertical). Esta passagem é crepuscular.
26 Julho - 21h52 às 21h57 - mais favorável no sul do país; passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 48 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 56 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste)
28 Julho - 21h06 às 21h12 - mais favorável no sul do país, passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 45 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 52 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste). Esta passagem é crepuscular.
Nota: para cada passagem indiquei duas localidades de referência; para calcular a altitude de passagem noutras localidades, pode fazer-se uma aproximação por interpolação.
Depois destas 5 passagens, só no dia 7 de Setembro voltará a haver passagens da ISS visíveis em Portugal ao início da noite.
EDIT: Por lapso enganei-me a copiar os dados de uma das passagens. Assinalei a vermelho as alterações que fiz.
Vamos ter 5 passagens brilhantes em 6 dias, todas facilmente visíveis em Portugal, o que constitui uma autêntica sequência de luxo! As cinco passagens serão visíveis em todo o país, sendo que a primeira e a terceira serão mais facilmente visíveis no norte, ao passo que as restantes se verão melhor no sul do território continental.
Em todas as ocasiões a estação espacial vem de noroeste (do Atlântico) para sueste (na direcção do sul de Espanha / Marrocos). Aqui ficam os detalhes:
23 Julho - 22h13 às 22h17 - mais favorável no norte do país; passa sobre a Galiza, ligeiramente a norte de Bragança - (em Lisboa: passa 40 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste; no Porto: passa 68 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste, quase na vertical)
24 Julho - 22h38 às 22h41 - mais favorável no sul do país; passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 52 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 54 graus sobre o horizonte a oeste e depois desaparece na sombra)
25 Julho - 21h27 às 21h33 - mais favorável no norte do país; passa na vertical de Chaves - (em Lisboa: passa 43 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste no Porto: passa 72 graus sobre o horizonte a nordeste, quase na vertical). Esta passagem é crepuscular.
26 Julho - 21h52 às 21h57 - mais favorável no sul do país; passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 48 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 56 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste)
28 Julho - 21h06 às 21h12 - mais favorável no sul do país, passa sobre o mar, a sudoeste do Cabo de São Vicente - (em Lisboa: passa 45 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste; em Faro: passa 52 graus sobre o horizonte a sudoeste). Esta passagem é crepuscular.
Nota: para cada passagem indiquei duas localidades de referência; para calcular a altitude de passagem noutras localidades, pode fazer-se uma aproximação por interpolação.
Depois destas 5 passagens, só no dia 7 de Setembro voltará a haver passagens da ISS visíveis em Portugal ao início da noite.
EDIT: Por lapso enganei-me a copiar os dados de uma das passagens. Assinalei a vermelho as alterações que fiz.
Editado pela última vez por Elias em 23/7/2009 21:56, num total de 1 vez.
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Mais um "calhau" que caiu em jupiter e deixou uma marca do tamanho da terra.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... mpact.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... mpact.html
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Investigadores vão aproveitar fenómeno para estudar o Sol
Ásia vai escurecer amanhã com o eclipse solar mais longo do século
21.07.2009 - 18h04 PÚBLICO
Um eclipse solar total vai passar pela Ásia, Japão e pelo Pacífico durante quarta-feira. Será o eclipse solar mais longo deste século, com uma duração maior do que cinco minutos.
O eclipse vai ter início no golfo de Khambhat, a Norte de Bombaim, e vai mover-se para Este, escurecendo a Índia, o Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Butão e a China. Depois continua para o Pacífico passando pelo Japão, e será visto pela última vez a partir da ilha de Nikumaroro, no Kiribati.
Mas a maior parte do continente asiático vai pelo menos ter oportunidade de ver parcialmente o eclipse. O fenómeno astronómico vai ter início esta madrugada às 01h14m54s (hora de Lisboa), e vai durar cerca de quatro horas. Pode ser seguido em tempo real no site Live! Eclipse 2009.
O último eclipse total, em Agosto de 2008, durou 2m27s, este vai chegar aos 6m39s. A grande duração vai ajudar os cientistas a estudar fenómenos solares. “Vamos ter que esperar algumas centenas de anos para ter outra oportunidade para observar o eclipse solar que dure tanto tempo, por isso é uma oportunidade muito especial”, disse à AP Shao Zhenyi, astrónomo do Observatório Astronómico de Xangai, na China.
Ásia vai escurecer amanhã com o eclipse solar mais longo do século
21.07.2009 - 18h04 PÚBLICO
Um eclipse solar total vai passar pela Ásia, Japão e pelo Pacífico durante quarta-feira. Será o eclipse solar mais longo deste século, com uma duração maior do que cinco minutos.
O eclipse vai ter início no golfo de Khambhat, a Norte de Bombaim, e vai mover-se para Este, escurecendo a Índia, o Nepal, Burma, Bangladesh, Butão e a China. Depois continua para o Pacífico passando pelo Japão, e será visto pela última vez a partir da ilha de Nikumaroro, no Kiribati.
Mas a maior parte do continente asiático vai pelo menos ter oportunidade de ver parcialmente o eclipse. O fenómeno astronómico vai ter início esta madrugada às 01h14m54s (hora de Lisboa), e vai durar cerca de quatro horas. Pode ser seguido em tempo real no site Live! Eclipse 2009.
O último eclipse total, em Agosto de 2008, durou 2m27s, este vai chegar aos 6m39s. A grande duração vai ajudar os cientistas a estudar fenómenos solares. “Vamos ter que esperar algumas centenas de anos para ter outra oportunidade para observar o eclipse solar que dure tanto tempo, por isso é uma oportunidade muito especial”, disse à AP Shao Zhenyi, astrónomo do Observatório Astronómico de Xangai, na China.
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Weather threatens to shadow eclipse
By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News ServiceJuly 21, 2009
SHANGHAI -- Thick clouds are threatening to ruin the best opportunity this century to see a total eclipse of the sun.
For once, the astronomical phenomenon is supposed to be visible in huge metropolitan areas, not just some remote mountaintop or windswept isle. And, for once in decades, it is supposed to last for more than the blink of an eye. Indeed, some 20 million people in Shanghai alone are poised to witness day turn to night for a full five minutes and 56 seconds on Wednesday morning, if the weather will only co-operate.
As of late Monday, the weatherman is predicting rain along much of the urban path of the eclipse as it sweeps along a narrow 10,000-kilometre corridor that takes it from Mumbai to Shanghai, out into the East China Sea over Japan's Ryukyu Islands, past Iwo Jima, and finally far out into the South Pacific where an eerie daytime-darkness will descend over a vast uninhabited stretch of ocean for six minutes 39 seconds.
At Shanghai Sculpture Park in rural Songjiang district, one of three recommended viewing locations in the city, spokesman Chen Shiming is still optimistic the rain will hold off during the crucial morning hours Wednesday.
"Even if the forecast says it will rain in Shanghai, it may not rain in this area," he said in an interview.
The park is expecting 2,000 to 3,000 visitors to watch the Earth, moon and sun align. Chen characterized them as mostly astronomy professionals and eclipse chasers from all over the world. He admitted they will be sorely disappointed if they are left sitting in the dark looking at clouds. "This is a once in three-or-400-years event, it will be a great regret if it rains," Chen said.
Lin Qing, director of the Sheshan branch of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, says eclipses are "magical," but he doesn't even pretend a little rain won't spoil the experience.
"If it rains, no viewing device will work," he said sadly. "It will all be over if it rains."
Clouds, on the other hand, are bad but not necessarily disastrous. "If it is just cloudy, then we can try our luck," he said.
Interestingly, Lin isn't overly worried that an "invisible" eclipse will impede researchers around the world. One hundred years ago that would have been the case, he said, but now, the sun really has been well and truly studied using satellites.
"We don't do research on the day, but help ordinary people learn about this eclipse," Lin said. "It's much more important in terms of science popularization than scientific research."
Other scientific disciplines are planning to use the eclipse to test their theories, but they aren't necessarily counting on it being visible to reap a result.
According to New Scientist magazine, for example, Chinese geophysicists are preparing to test the "controversial theory" that "gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse." It is an anomaly that has been witnessed a score of times, but most scientists still don't believe it.
Proving it true would undermine ideas of how gravity works.
http://www.canada.com/Weather+threatens ... story.html
By Aileen McCabe, Canwest News ServiceJuly 21, 2009
SHANGHAI -- Thick clouds are threatening to ruin the best opportunity this century to see a total eclipse of the sun.
For once, the astronomical phenomenon is supposed to be visible in huge metropolitan areas, not just some remote mountaintop or windswept isle. And, for once in decades, it is supposed to last for more than the blink of an eye. Indeed, some 20 million people in Shanghai alone are poised to witness day turn to night for a full five minutes and 56 seconds on Wednesday morning, if the weather will only co-operate.
As of late Monday, the weatherman is predicting rain along much of the urban path of the eclipse as it sweeps along a narrow 10,000-kilometre corridor that takes it from Mumbai to Shanghai, out into the East China Sea over Japan's Ryukyu Islands, past Iwo Jima, and finally far out into the South Pacific where an eerie daytime-darkness will descend over a vast uninhabited stretch of ocean for six minutes 39 seconds.
At Shanghai Sculpture Park in rural Songjiang district, one of three recommended viewing locations in the city, spokesman Chen Shiming is still optimistic the rain will hold off during the crucial morning hours Wednesday.
"Even if the forecast says it will rain in Shanghai, it may not rain in this area," he said in an interview.
The park is expecting 2,000 to 3,000 visitors to watch the Earth, moon and sun align. Chen characterized them as mostly astronomy professionals and eclipse chasers from all over the world. He admitted they will be sorely disappointed if they are left sitting in the dark looking at clouds. "This is a once in three-or-400-years event, it will be a great regret if it rains," Chen said.
Lin Qing, director of the Sheshan branch of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, says eclipses are "magical," but he doesn't even pretend a little rain won't spoil the experience.
"If it rains, no viewing device will work," he said sadly. "It will all be over if it rains."
Clouds, on the other hand, are bad but not necessarily disastrous. "If it is just cloudy, then we can try our luck," he said.
Interestingly, Lin isn't overly worried that an "invisible" eclipse will impede researchers around the world. One hundred years ago that would have been the case, he said, but now, the sun really has been well and truly studied using satellites.
"We don't do research on the day, but help ordinary people learn about this eclipse," Lin said. "It's much more important in terms of science popularization than scientific research."
Other scientific disciplines are planning to use the eclipse to test their theories, but they aren't necessarily counting on it being visible to reap a result.
According to New Scientist magazine, for example, Chinese geophysicists are preparing to test the "controversial theory" that "gravity drops slightly during a total eclipse." It is an anomaly that has been witnessed a score of times, but most scientists still don't believe it.
Proving it true would undermine ideas of how gravity works.
http://www.canada.com/Weather+threatens ... story.html
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Solar eclipse excitement sweeps Asia
NASA says it will be "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse; will cross half the planet
MIT astronomer says it could be seen by more people than any other eclipse
The path of the total eclipse will stretch across the heart of Asia
Some watching events include a cruise, plane trip and a music festival
updated 1 hour, 31 minutes agoNext Article in World »
(CNN) -- Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.
People try out "solar view goggles" ahead of the eclipse on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India.
"This eclipse has the potential to be observed by more people than any eclipse in all of history," said MIT astronomer Richard Binzel, who will be in Shanghai leading an expedition of observers and a group of eclipse chasers.
"Essentially, every inhabitant of all of India and China will be able to see at least part of the sun covered throughout the day," he said.
The path of the total eclipse will stretch across the heart of Asia -- from India's Bay of Cambay, over the Himalayas and across China and the southern islands of Japan.
Though the instance of greatest eclipse will occur over the Pacific Ocean at six minutes, 39 seconds, people in some areas of China and Japan will experience up to more than six minutes of darkness, according to predictions by Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and J. Anderson of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
The 15,150-kilometer (9,415-mile) journey of the moon's shadow across the Earth will last nearly three-and-a-half hours and be "one of the longest eclipses, if not the longest eclipse, in this century," Binzel said.
Forecasters predict stormy weather for Wednesday morning in Shanghai, but this prognosis has not deterred astronomers and tourists from flooding the city. Send us your photos of the eclipse
Professor Zhao Junliang of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory said the weather could be unpredictable but staying away from such an historic event would be a mistake.
"In 1987, I chased a total solar eclipse in (the western region of) Xinjiang. At the time, the sun was entirely blocked by stormy clouds. Two minutes before the eclipse began, the clouds suddenly cleared," Zhao said. "You just never know, so you have to go." Read blog on how eclipse-chasers are gambling on weather
They are armed with high resolution digital cameras and telescopes. "You'll know us when you see us," said Gille, who travels the world chasing solar eclipses. "We're all wearing beige t-shirts which read 'Eclipse 2009.'"
Total eclipses happen about once a year or a little less often somewhere on the Earth's surface and are visible in a narrow band, Benzil said.
"This band starts at sunrise in India and ends at sunset over the Pacific, just east of Hawaii about four hours later. The shadow path of the moon is sweeping across the surface of the Earth at about 3,000 kilometers per hour," he said. "The partial eclipse is also visible throughout Thailand and Vietnam, as far south at the top tip of Australia and as far north as Siberia."
In some cultures, legends and folklore surrounds eclipses.
In India, an eclipse is considered inauspicious. Women forbid pregnant daughters-in-law from going outside out of the belief that their children could be born with marks. Some temples won't offer any prayers on the day of an eclipse -- such as the one next to the planetarium in Mumbai, which said it won't even light a stick of incense.
In Chinese tradition, there is a story about a heavenly dog eating the sun. As the story goes, people would make noise to scare off the dog and rescue the sun, said Bill Yeung, president of the Hong Kong Astronomical Society.
"In ancient China, we shared the same impression with our Indian friends that a solar eclipse was not a good thing," he told CNN.
Some of the more unusual ways to see Wednesday's eclipse include a cruise ship that will travel along the centerline off Japan and from aboard a 737-700 chartered plane in India.
"The aircraft will be intercepting the middle of the eclipse shadow at 0626 IST (Indian Standard Time) at a height of 41,000 feet," travel company Cox and Kings India Ltd, which is organizing the flight in association with Space technology and education Ltd, said in a statement.
"Eclipse chasers sitting along the Sun Side seats of the aircraft will be able to photograph the eclipse; while the chasers sitting along the Earth Side seats will be able to photograph the Lunar Shadow moving over the Earth cloud top," the company said.
More conventional viewing parties in Shanghai have been planned along the beach, in a park and in skyscrapers. A music festival has been organized in Japan's Amami island, with more than 6,000 people expected, and Japanese television has shown rows of tents set up on Akusekijima island.
The witnesses of the eclipse will range "from the farmer who only knows legends of eclipses and may not know this is happening at all to the world's experts who have come specifically to the Shanghai region to make the most detailed scientific analysis possible," added Binzel, the MIT astronomer.
For James and Kathy Scheffler of Kokomo, Indiana, solar eclipses are not to be missed. They have seen six eclipses, including in Aruba, the Black Sea, Madagascar and the Egyptian-Libyan border, and are now making their way to Shanghai.
"When it happens, there is this dissonance that is set up between what your body knows is supposed to be light and what your eyes are seeing -- it's suddenly gotten dark. It's a very, very strange feeling that some people have likened to a religious experience, and you get kind of addicted to that," said James Scheffler, a cardiologist.
"It's a very interesting emotional experience as well as the beauty of the event." Kathy Scheffler added: "It's an experience that, first of all very few people in the world will see it, and second of all, it's a once in a lifetime -- ever -- experience that you can't ever duplicate because they are all so different."
NASA says it will be "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse; will cross half the planet
MIT astronomer says it could be seen by more people than any other eclipse
The path of the total eclipse will stretch across the heart of Asia
Some watching events include a cruise, plane trip and a music festival
updated 1 hour, 31 minutes agoNext Article in World »
(CNN) -- Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.
People try out "solar view goggles" ahead of the eclipse on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India.
"This eclipse has the potential to be observed by more people than any eclipse in all of history," said MIT astronomer Richard Binzel, who will be in Shanghai leading an expedition of observers and a group of eclipse chasers.
"Essentially, every inhabitant of all of India and China will be able to see at least part of the sun covered throughout the day," he said.
The path of the total eclipse will stretch across the heart of Asia -- from India's Bay of Cambay, over the Himalayas and across China and the southern islands of Japan.
Though the instance of greatest eclipse will occur over the Pacific Ocean at six minutes, 39 seconds, people in some areas of China and Japan will experience up to more than six minutes of darkness, according to predictions by Fred Espenak of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and J. Anderson of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
The 15,150-kilometer (9,415-mile) journey of the moon's shadow across the Earth will last nearly three-and-a-half hours and be "one of the longest eclipses, if not the longest eclipse, in this century," Binzel said.
Forecasters predict stormy weather for Wednesday morning in Shanghai, but this prognosis has not deterred astronomers and tourists from flooding the city. Send us your photos of the eclipse
Professor Zhao Junliang of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory said the weather could be unpredictable but staying away from such an historic event would be a mistake.
"In 1987, I chased a total solar eclipse in (the western region of) Xinjiang. At the time, the sun was entirely blocked by stormy clouds. Two minutes before the eclipse began, the clouds suddenly cleared," Zhao said. "You just never know, so you have to go." Read blog on how eclipse-chasers are gambling on weather
They are armed with high resolution digital cameras and telescopes. "You'll know us when you see us," said Gille, who travels the world chasing solar eclipses. "We're all wearing beige t-shirts which read 'Eclipse 2009.'"
Total eclipses happen about once a year or a little less often somewhere on the Earth's surface and are visible in a narrow band, Benzil said.
"This band starts at sunrise in India and ends at sunset over the Pacific, just east of Hawaii about four hours later. The shadow path of the moon is sweeping across the surface of the Earth at about 3,000 kilometers per hour," he said. "The partial eclipse is also visible throughout Thailand and Vietnam, as far south at the top tip of Australia and as far north as Siberia."
In some cultures, legends and folklore surrounds eclipses.
In India, an eclipse is considered inauspicious. Women forbid pregnant daughters-in-law from going outside out of the belief that their children could be born with marks. Some temples won't offer any prayers on the day of an eclipse -- such as the one next to the planetarium in Mumbai, which said it won't even light a stick of incense.
In Chinese tradition, there is a story about a heavenly dog eating the sun. As the story goes, people would make noise to scare off the dog and rescue the sun, said Bill Yeung, president of the Hong Kong Astronomical Society.
"In ancient China, we shared the same impression with our Indian friends that a solar eclipse was not a good thing," he told CNN.
Some of the more unusual ways to see Wednesday's eclipse include a cruise ship that will travel along the centerline off Japan and from aboard a 737-700 chartered plane in India.
"The aircraft will be intercepting the middle of the eclipse shadow at 0626 IST (Indian Standard Time) at a height of 41,000 feet," travel company Cox and Kings India Ltd, which is organizing the flight in association with Space technology and education Ltd, said in a statement.
"Eclipse chasers sitting along the Sun Side seats of the aircraft will be able to photograph the eclipse; while the chasers sitting along the Earth Side seats will be able to photograph the Lunar Shadow moving over the Earth cloud top," the company said.
More conventional viewing parties in Shanghai have been planned along the beach, in a park and in skyscrapers. A music festival has been organized in Japan's Amami island, with more than 6,000 people expected, and Japanese television has shown rows of tents set up on Akusekijima island.
The witnesses of the eclipse will range "from the farmer who only knows legends of eclipses and may not know this is happening at all to the world's experts who have come specifically to the Shanghai region to make the most detailed scientific analysis possible," added Binzel, the MIT astronomer.
For James and Kathy Scheffler of Kokomo, Indiana, solar eclipses are not to be missed. They have seen six eclipses, including in Aruba, the Black Sea, Madagascar and the Egyptian-Libyan border, and are now making their way to Shanghai.
"When it happens, there is this dissonance that is set up between what your body knows is supposed to be light and what your eyes are seeing -- it's suddenly gotten dark. It's a very, very strange feeling that some people have likened to a religious experience, and you get kind of addicted to that," said James Scheffler, a cardiologist.
"It's a very interesting emotional experience as well as the beauty of the event." Kathy Scheffler added: "It's an experience that, first of all very few people in the world will see it, and second of all, it's a once in a lifetime -- ever -- experience that you can't ever duplicate because they are all so different."
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Astrologers: Solar Eclipse Will Cause World Violence
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This week's solar eclipse has Indian astrologers predicting violence and turmoil across the world, AFP reported.
In Hindu mythology, the two demons Rahu and Ketu are said to "swallow" the sun during eclipses. It takes the life-giving life and causes food to become inedile and water undrinkable, AFP reported.
Mothers-to-be are told to stay inside so their baby doesn't develop birth defects and some are worried a major world catastrophe will take place.
Raj Kumar Sharma, a Mumbai astrologer, told AFP, "some sort of attack by (Kashmiri separatists) Jaish-e-Mohammad or Al Qaeda on Indian soil" and a devastating natural disaster in Southeast Asia.
But, scientists and astronomers are trying to downplay the claims, saying Wednesday's eclipse is a nature occurrence.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534141,00.html
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This week's solar eclipse has Indian astrologers predicting violence and turmoil across the world, AFP reported.
In Hindu mythology, the two demons Rahu and Ketu are said to "swallow" the sun during eclipses. It takes the life-giving life and causes food to become inedile and water undrinkable, AFP reported.
Mothers-to-be are told to stay inside so their baby doesn't develop birth defects and some are worried a major world catastrophe will take place.
Raj Kumar Sharma, a Mumbai astrologer, told AFP, "some sort of attack by (Kashmiri separatists) Jaish-e-Mohammad or Al Qaeda on Indian soil" and a devastating natural disaster in Southeast Asia.
But, scientists and astronomers are trying to downplay the claims, saying Wednesday's eclipse is a nature occurrence.
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Depois de amanhã, 22 de Julho, haverá um eclipse total do Sol, visível na Ásia e no Pacífico. Será o maior eclipse total do século XXI.
Mais informação aqui:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin ... 20537.html
Mais informação aqui:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observin ... 20537.html
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Após um hiato de cinco semanas, vem aí mais uma série de passagens da ISS com excelentes condições de visibilidade.
Houve uma primeira às 23h de dia 6 (há cerca de uma hora atrás) mas por lapso deixei-a passar pois não consultei o calendário a tempo. Mas agora vai mesmo ser uma bateria delas - a próxima é já hoje dia 7 às 22 horas, seguir-se-ão mais duas boas oportunidades no dia 8 e no dia 10!
Fica desde já o boneco para a passagem de dia 7 (mais logo dou detalhes dos azimutes)
Houve uma primeira às 23h de dia 6 (há cerca de uma hora atrás) mas por lapso deixei-a passar pois não consultei o calendário a tempo. Mas agora vai mesmo ser uma bateria delas - a próxima é já hoje dia 7 às 22 horas, seguir-se-ão mais duas boas oportunidades no dia 8 e no dia 10!
Fica desde já o boneco para a passagem de dia 7 (mais logo dou detalhes dos azimutes)
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Boas,
Esta passagem aconteceu ao crepúsculo e por isso quando o satélite ficou visível já ia quase no zénite. Depois seguiu o seu caminho para sueste.
Agora só voltará a haver passagens à noite a partir da segunda semana de Julho.
1 abraço,
Elias
Esta passagem aconteceu ao crepúsculo e por isso quando o satélite ficou visível já ia quase no zénite. Depois seguiu o seu caminho para sueste.
Agora só voltará a haver passagens à noite a partir da segunda semana de Julho.
1 abraço,
Elias
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Luis, mostra lá ao teu filho o que é bom
Luis, mostra lá ao teu filho o que é bom

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