You think...or you've researched? And I owe you an explanation or should feel inclined.toward such? You must have me mistaken for some other commenter.
Yessir, the first lunar eclipse to coincide with winter solstice, the darkest day of a year, in 456 yrs. The date is astronomically irrelevent...universally speaking.
Having witnessed quite a few lunar eclipses since I was child, I'm sure this phenomena happens more frequently than every half a millennia. I was asking what happens every 456 years, as you weren't explicit in your commentary, and made no mention of the Winter Solstice. No need for teeth and nails, it's only planetary alignment.
Not sensitive at all. Just don't think your commentary was necessary. I like to know interesting things, and if you know something I don't, I'm happy to be enlightened by your unique perspective and knowledge, and I'd hope you would feel the same by what I have to share. So no, I don't have you mistaken for another commenter.
This lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," says Chester. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one...that will be on 2094 DEC 21.
So you only have to live another 84 years, and you can check it out again. :)
@ anon - for my part I will conclude by stating that your terse "explain?" came off as a command rather than an entreaty. Im not inclined to march on command nor in lock step.
Your comments lean more toward a challenge or debate rather than a desire for clarification. This is why I suggest that you have me mistaken for another commenter; one that, peradventure, wants to engage you in things you either already have a predetermined answer for or could readily lookup on you own.
"I like to know interesting things, and if you know something I don't, I'm happy to be enlighten ed by your unique perspective and knowledge, and I'd hope you would feel the same by what I have to share." -It's the Diggy Diggy Doc Y'all!
Don't waste your time Nicki Nicki Tembo...he lyin' anyway.
I tried to stay up for that last night - couldn't do it. That event hadn't happened in 456 yrs and I couldn't fight sleep. Dang!
ReplyDeletei saw. and was in awe....
ReplyDeleteClouds. @Nicki 456 years? I think it happens more often than that. Explain?
ReplyDeleteYou think...or you've researched? And I owe you an explanation or should feel inclined.toward such? You must have me mistaken for some other commenter.
ReplyDelete456 years? On the soltice or on the 21st?
ReplyDeleteThe Julian calender caused some mistakes on the date.
Yessir, the first lunar eclipse to coincide with winter solstice, the darkest day of a year, in 456 yrs. The date is astronomically irrelevent...universally speaking.
ReplyDeleteHaving witnessed quite a few lunar eclipses since I was child, I'm sure this phenomena happens more frequently than every half a millennia. I was asking what happens every 456 years, as you weren't explicit in your commentary, and made no mention of the Winter Solstice. No need for teeth and nails, it's only planetary alignment.
ReplyDeleteYou felt teeth and nails? Quite sensitive and again mistaken.
ReplyDeleteNot sensitive at all. Just don't think your commentary was necessary. I like to know interesting things, and if you know something I don't, I'm happy to be enlightened by your unique perspective and knowledge, and I'd hope you would feel the same by what I have to share. So no, I don't have you mistaken for another commenter.
ReplyDeleteBTW...from NASA
ReplyDeleteThis lunar eclipse falls on the date of the northern winter solstice. How rare is that? Total lunar eclipses in northern winter are fairly common. There have been three of them in the past ten years alone. A lunar eclipse smack-dab on the date of the solstice, however, is unusual. Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory inspected a list of eclipses going back 2000 years. "Since Year 1, I can only find one previous instance of an eclipse matching the same calendar date as the solstice, and that is 1638 DEC 21," says Chester. "Fortunately we won't have to wait 372 years for the next one...that will be on 2094 DEC 21.
So you only have to live another 84 years, and you can check it out again. :)
http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/will-lunar-eclipse-on-december-21st.html
ReplyDeleteWill the Lunar Eclipse on December 21st, 2010 Unlock the "Apocalypse?"
NOT WHAT U THINK. :)
@ anon - for my part I will conclude by stating that your terse "explain?" came off as a command rather than an entreaty. Im not inclined to march on command nor in lock step.
ReplyDeleteYour comments lean more toward a challenge or debate rather than a desire for clarification. This is why I suggest that you have me mistaken for another commenter; one that, peradventure, wants to engage you in things you either already have a predetermined answer for or could readily lookup on you own.
While we looking at that, They are looking at this.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.eutimes.net/2010/12/world-leaders-flock-to-afghanistan-after-mysterious-time-well-discovered/
WTF!!??!???
"I like to know interesting things, and if you know something I don't, I'm happy to be enlighten
ReplyDeleteed by your unique perspective and knowledge, and I'd hope you would feel the same by what I have to share." -It's the Diggy Diggy Doc Y'all!
Don't waste your time Nicki Nicki Tembo...he lyin' anyway.