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Dennis
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 Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 12:56 am Post subject: Millions sight the New Moon .......... |
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Millions of people from India to the South Pacific were treated to the 21st century longest visual sighting, so far, of the 5th New Moon of the current Festival year.
for the complete news item: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32011724/ns/technology_and_science-space/
The next occurrence over North America will be August 21, 2017 and may be be seen from Oregon to South Carolina.
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Dennis
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:25 pm Post subject: Look at these photos of the first New Moon of 2010 |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/picture-galleries/6995759/Ring-of-fire-annular-solar-eclipse-over-Asia-and-Africa.html
| Quote: | A solar eclipse that reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a sombre disk plunged millions of people in Africa and Asia into an eerie semi-darkness. The spectacle, visible in a 185-mile band running 8,062 miles across the globe, set a record for the longest annular eclipse that will remain unbeaten for more than a thousand years. An annular eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun but does not completely obscure it, thus leaving a ring - an annulus - of sunlight flaring around the lunar disk
Picture: REUTERS |
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