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At 11:20 a.m. PT Wednesday, a total, 100-minute-long lunar eclipse will be visible in South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
If you’re not from those parts, Google and Slooh have prepared a myriad of options that let you enjoy the lunar eclipse from the relative safety of your couch.
Perhaps the simplest way to watch the lunar eclipse is to tune into the live streaming video on Google’s official-http://www.youtube.com/google YouTube channel.
You can also follow the event on Slooh’s mission interface-http://eclipse.slooh.com/, together with narration from astronomers, or you can watch it from the Sky layer in Google Earth by downloading this .kml file-http://sky-search.appspot.com/eclipse. Finally, you can see images from the eclipse on your Android phone by downloading the Slooh Space Camera Android app
INDEPTH Story:
Astronomy fans in the U.S. won't be able to catch a glimpse of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse, but Google just put up a homepage doodle that will allow people to follow along.
"Starting now, see the latest state of the lunar eclipse on our homepage - thanks @slooh for the imagery," Google tweeted-http://twitter.com/google/status/81067520051773440.
Slooh.com provides crowdsourced access to live telescopes from around the world. Since its December 2003 launch, members have taken 1.3 million photos of 35,000 unique objects and events in the night sky. The Google doodle will include a live feed of the lunar eclipse from Slooh's Space Camera-https://market.android.com/details?id=com.slooh, which will update every two minutes throughout the event.
When you land on the doodle, a dial at the bottom of the image will move from left to right, going through the various stages of the eclipse, before settling on its current state. For a slower view, however, you can move the dial back and forth yourself.
Earlier today, Google announced-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386945,00.asp that it would team up with Slooh to live stream the eclipse. There are several ways to watch: Slooh's live mission-http://eclipse.slooh.com/ interface-http://eclipse.slooh.com/ includes audio narrations from real-life astronomers and it also has an Android app-https://market.android.com/details?id=com.slooh; there's a live stream on the Google YouTube Channel-http://www.youtube.com/google; and there's an eclipse sky layer in Google Earth that's accessible via a special plug-in-http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-lunar-eclipse-from-anywhere.html.
During a lunar eclipse, Earth comes between the sun and the moon so that all or part of the sun's light is blocked from the moon, according to NASA.
Wednesday's eclipse is also notable for how long it will last. "The total phase itself lasts 100 minutes. The last eclipse to exceed this duration was in July 2000," astrophysicist Fred Espenak wrote in NASA's eclipse guide for 2011-http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html.
The entire event will be visible from the eastern half of Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, and western Australia, Espenak said. Europe will miss the first part of the eclipse because it happens before moonrise, but—with the exception of northern Scotland and northern Scandinavia—Europeans will be able to see totality. Eastern Asia, eastern Australia, and New Zealand, meanwhile, will miss the last stages of eclipse because they occur after moonset.
In South America, observers in eastern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina will witness totality, but nothing will be viewable from North America. Those in the U.S. should be able to see the December eclipse, however.
If you're in an area where you can view the eclipse, see PCMag's 6 Tips for Better Moon Photos.-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382453,00.asp
For more on Google's doodles, see the slideshow below. The company's last popular-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386636,00.asp doodle was a playable image in honor of musician Les Paul, which eventually got its own standalone site-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386764,00.asp
If you’re not from those parts, Google and Slooh have prepared a myriad of options that let you enjoy the lunar eclipse from the relative safety of your couch.
Perhaps the simplest way to watch the lunar eclipse is to tune into the live streaming video on Google’s official-http://www.youtube.com/google YouTube channel.
You can also follow the event on Slooh’s mission interface-http://eclipse.slooh.com/, together with narration from astronomers, or you can watch it from the Sky layer in Google Earth by downloading this .kml file-http://sky-search.appspot.com/eclipse. Finally, you can see images from the eclipse on your Android phone by downloading the Slooh Space Camera Android app
INDEPTH Story:
Astronomy fans in the U.S. won't be able to catch a glimpse of Wednesday's total lunar eclipse, but Google just put up a homepage doodle that will allow people to follow along.
"Starting now, see the latest state of the lunar eclipse on our homepage - thanks @slooh for the imagery," Google tweeted-http://twitter.com/google/status/81067520051773440.
Slooh.com provides crowdsourced access to live telescopes from around the world. Since its December 2003 launch, members have taken 1.3 million photos of 35,000 unique objects and events in the night sky. The Google doodle will include a live feed of the lunar eclipse from Slooh's Space Camera-https://market.android.com/details?id=com.slooh, which will update every two minutes throughout the event.
When you land on the doodle, a dial at the bottom of the image will move from left to right, going through the various stages of the eclipse, before settling on its current state. For a slower view, however, you can move the dial back and forth yourself.
Earlier today, Google announced-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386945,00.asp that it would team up with Slooh to live stream the eclipse. There are several ways to watch: Slooh's live mission-http://eclipse.slooh.com/ interface-http://eclipse.slooh.com/ includes audio narrations from real-life astronomers and it also has an Android app-https://market.android.com/details?id=com.slooh; there's a live stream on the Google YouTube Channel-http://www.youtube.com/google; and there's an eclipse sky layer in Google Earth that's accessible via a special plug-in-http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/watch-lunar-eclipse-from-anywhere.html.
During a lunar eclipse, Earth comes between the sun and the moon so that all or part of the sun's light is blocked from the moon, according to NASA.
Wednesday's eclipse is also notable for how long it will last. "The total phase itself lasts 100 minutes. The last eclipse to exceed this duration was in July 2000," astrophysicist Fred Espenak wrote in NASA's eclipse guide for 2011-http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html.
The entire event will be visible from the eastern half of Africa, the Middle East, central Asia, and western Australia, Espenak said. Europe will miss the first part of the eclipse because it happens before moonrise, but—with the exception of northern Scotland and northern Scandinavia—Europeans will be able to see totality. Eastern Asia, eastern Australia, and New Zealand, meanwhile, will miss the last stages of eclipse because they occur after moonset.
In South America, observers in eastern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina will witness totality, but nothing will be viewable from North America. Those in the U.S. should be able to see the December eclipse, however.
If you're in an area where you can view the eclipse, see PCMag's 6 Tips for Better Moon Photos.-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382453,00.asp
For more on Google's doodles, see the slideshow below. The company's last popular-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386636,00.asp doodle was a playable image in honor of musician Les Paul, which eventually got its own standalone site-http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2386764,00.asp
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