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- Thread starter SEF
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Fantastic SEF!
Someone, remind me, what is UT relative to ET, or CT, MT, and PT?
Paracelsus, Mystic Shaman, Moon Gazer, and Lycanthrocope
Someone, remind me, what is UT relative to ET, or CT, MT, and PT?
Paracelsus, Mystic Shaman, Moon Gazer, and Lycanthrocope
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UT is universal time. It's based on local Greenwich time and uses a 24 hour clock. As you move away from Greenwich, you fall behind UT. For each time zone west of Greenwich, add an hour to your local time to get universal time.
Eastern +5 hours
Central +6 hours
Mountain +7 hours
Pacific +8 hours
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Cerulean
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? - Blake
Eastern +5 hours
Central +6 hours
Mountain +7 hours
Pacific +8 hours
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Cerulean
What the hammer? what the chain?
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Thanks Cerulean! However, since the eclipse will be happening EVERYWHERE at the same time, you need to SUBTRACT the number of hours listed above to get the correct time for your time zone.
So the period of total eclipse seen from the East Coast begins at 11:05 PM on Thursday 12/20/00. Subtract one hour for each time zone going westward. The total eclipse of the moon by the shadow of the Earth will begin at 8:05 PM on the West coast. Because of diffraction and filtering of the suns light through the Earth's Atmosphere, the Moon will appear to be Red, not completely dark, during the period of totality.
Eclipse begins 10:01 PM EST Thursday 12/20
Totality begins 11:05 PM EST
Mid eclipse 11:44 PM EST
Totality ends 12:22 AM EST Friday 12/21
eclipse ends 1:25 AM EST
Take a look at www.skypub.com/sights/eclipses/lunar/0001preview.html for more info.
Paracelsus
[This message has been edited by Paracelsus (edited 01-19-2000).]
So the period of total eclipse seen from the East Coast begins at 11:05 PM on Thursday 12/20/00. Subtract one hour for each time zone going westward. The total eclipse of the moon by the shadow of the Earth will begin at 8:05 PM on the West coast. Because of diffraction and filtering of the suns light through the Earth's Atmosphere, the Moon will appear to be Red, not completely dark, during the period of totality.
Eclipse begins 10:01 PM EST Thursday 12/20
Totality begins 11:05 PM EST
Mid eclipse 11:44 PM EST
Totality ends 12:22 AM EST Friday 12/21
eclipse ends 1:25 AM EST
Take a look at www.skypub.com/sights/eclipses/lunar/0001preview.html for more info.
Paracelsus
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Why do you have to put your knives away just to watch the moon? What if I have a fixed blade, how do I fold that up? This is confusing. Thanks for the info though, I had no idea there was an eclipse coming up. Now I'll probably watch.
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No, no. Read my post again, Paracelsus. The hours I listed above should be "added to your local time to get universal time". If you want to get local time from universal time, simply do the reverse and subtract the hours.
Also, one should remember that the date changes when you pass 00 hours, so the eclipse will take place on the 20th in the US of A.
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Cerulean
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? - Blake
[This message has been edited by cerulean (edited 01-20-2000).]
Also, one should remember that the date changes when you pass 00 hours, so the eclipse will take place on the 20th in the US of A.
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Cerulean
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain? - Blake
[This message has been edited by cerulean (edited 01-20-2000).]
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Yeah, eclipses of the moon are Red and Way Cool. Since the moon is in the shadow of the Earth, and the sun is behind the Earth shining away, some light makes its way through the Earth's atmosphere and is bent enough to hit the Moon and bounce back towards the Earth so we can see it. Because longer (red) wave lengths of light will bend more, more of the red light from the sun makes it to the Moon and back. So we see the moon as red.
Apparently the dust cloud that circled from years after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption has now settled out of the atmosphere. This will the the first 'normal' appearing eclipse of the moon in many years. Atmospheric scientists use the light reflected from the moon during a lunar eclipse to measure properties of the atmosphere. Because this one is happening during the early evening, and complete occultation will be observed by all of the American continants, this should be one to watch and remember. Keep you kids up a little late to see it (about 11 PM EST, 10 PM CST, and 9 PM MT, and 8 PM PST).
This universe is endlessly fantastic and surprising. Remember that it is only in the last few hundred years that Man even figured out what Eclipses really were, and how to use Mathematics to predict them. Ancient cultures had all sorts of interesting explanations for such phenomenon. I am going to do some serious Howling and Baying at the Bloody Moon tonight. Enjoy!
Paracelsus, Mystic Shaman and someone who knows entirely too little about entirely too much
Cerulean, I read it right the first time. I didn't mean to say what you posted was wrong. I just wanted folks to know exactly what time in their Local area that they would see the eclipse.
[This message has been edited by Paracelsus (edited 01-20-2000).]
Apparently the dust cloud that circled from years after the Mt. Pinatubo eruption has now settled out of the atmosphere. This will the the first 'normal' appearing eclipse of the moon in many years. Atmospheric scientists use the light reflected from the moon during a lunar eclipse to measure properties of the atmosphere. Because this one is happening during the early evening, and complete occultation will be observed by all of the American continants, this should be one to watch and remember. Keep you kids up a little late to see it (about 11 PM EST, 10 PM CST, and 9 PM MT, and 8 PM PST).
This universe is endlessly fantastic and surprising. Remember that it is only in the last few hundred years that Man even figured out what Eclipses really were, and how to use Mathematics to predict them. Ancient cultures had all sorts of interesting explanations for such phenomenon. I am going to do some serious Howling and Baying at the Bloody Moon tonight. Enjoy!
Paracelsus, Mystic Shaman and someone who knows entirely too little about entirely too much
Cerulean, I read it right the first time. I didn't mean to say what you posted was wrong. I just wanted folks to know exactly what time in their Local area that they would see the eclipse.
[This message has been edited by Paracelsus (edited 01-20-2000).]
I was expecting a blood-red moon!! there's nothing blood-red about it! it's half ON and half OFF.
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I would put some important quote from the bible here, as many of you have done, but I don't believe in god or that jesus was his (?) son.
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Knives and Cars... Simple but EXPENSIVE.
I would put some important quote from the bible here, as many of you have done, but I don't believe in god or that jesus was his (?) son.
Well then heres a quote:
"The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
- -Pink Floyd
"The lunatic is on the grass
The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon"
- -Pink Floyd
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Thanks SEF, we needed a little Pink floyd to accompany the mayhem going on here in the institution. That little nasty critter, Vampire Gerbil, got out of his cage in the rec room again. He has been running all around the institution (oops ... home) letting all of us loonies out to bay at the moon which currently has no Dark Side. There is nothing halfway about it, it's Completely in the Dark, just like the rest of us lunatics. Gottta go out and play in the grass now. The Outside is just down the hall. But first I'll have to get outta your head . . .
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Posted from: The Home for the Mentally Deranged or Merely Confused
Tonight was a most excellent example of why life is so grand.
This was one of the best free show I've experienced in several years.
OK - maybe it was justa good reason to share natural events with the neighbors and it didn't involve catastrophic (Y2K for example) reasons to "meet in the streets"
'course as I said earlier,
I got no life
This was one of the best free show I've experienced in several years.
OK - maybe it was justa good reason to share natural events with the neighbors and it didn't involve catastrophic (Y2K for example) reasons to "meet in the streets"
'course as I said earlier,
I got no life