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[Humpty]

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No matter where in Australia you are on August 28, you'll be in for a top show once the sun goes down. A total lunar eclipse will be visible right across the country from sunset. The only problem with all that family-friendly moon viewing is dealing with the mind-bending questions the kids are going to ask. ABC Science's Bernie Hobbs has whipped up some answers to the most likely questions, and shattered a few lunar myths to boot.

Moon Eclipse

[hazelnut]

Humpty I will be expecting a photo of it from you for my September desktop

[DennisD]

Would like to experience that, only seen an almost total eclipse.

[Andavari]

It's rather interesting even ironic that the Earth's moon would so perfectly eclipse the sun like that. It almost seems like nature sometimes has a design to it.

[Robbie]

DennisD, on Aug 26 2007, 06:07 PM, said:

Would like to experience that, only seen an almost total eclipse.

we had a total eclipse back in 1999, I don't know if you remember that. Though it was rather disappointing - the sky was cloudy to start with in the north east, so it just went a bit darker when the total eclipse happened. It was a bit of a disappointment, to be honest! I was expecting a total blackout, but it never happened.

[JDPower]

Andavari, on Aug 26 2007, 06:26 PM, said:

It's rather interesting even ironic that the Earth's moon would so perfectly eclipse the sun like that. It almost seems like nature sometimes has a design to it.

This of course isn't relevant here as this is a lunar eclipse

There was a lunar eclipse in the uk last year IIRC, interesting to see once but not quite the spectacle that a solar eclipse is.

[JDPower]

Robbie, on Aug 26 2007, 11:16 PM, said:

we had a total eclipse back in 1999, I don't know if you remember that. Though it was rather disappointing - the sky was cloudy to start with in the north east, so it just went a bit darker when the total eclipse happened. It was a bit of a disappointment, to be honest! I was expecting a total blackout, but it never happened.

If you were in Newcastle you wouldn't have had a full eclipse, it was only visible as a full eclipse on the south coast of the UK. Even an almost total eclipse doesn't cause it to go completely dark.

[Humpty]

Total solar eclipses are possible only because of a unique relationship between the Sun and the Moon, which is 400 times closer to the Earth than the Sun, but also 400 times smaller than the Sun.
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