Friday, June 17, 2011

Gerhana Bulan 15 June 2011



Longest Total Lunar Eclipse in 11 Years 




Skywatcher Derek Keats of Johannesburg, South Africa snapped this photo of the total lunar eclipse of June 15, 2011 with a Canon EOS 50D camera.
CREDIT: Derek Keats 
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                        News of eclipse 15 June 2011 

Total Lunar Eclipse 15 june 2011  (Reuters-Nir Elias)
Millions of people were able to view the longest Total Lunar Eclipse in over ten years, lasting a cool 100 minutes; another words a whooping
1 hour and 40 minutes of totality. A wonderful and beautiful crimson red Moon greeted all those who peered towards the south eastern sky and were rewarded by our humble Moon looking radient and majestic displaying a magnificent red.











But Why does the Moon turn Red?

One may have thought that when the Moon drifts deep into the huge shadow cast out into Space by Earth, that the Moon should really become invisible for the duration whilst deep in Earth's umbra shadow, and so it would but for the fact of Earth's atmosphere; light from the Sun strikes Earth's atmosphere and dust particiles, water molecules and any volcanic ash floating around in the atmosphere refracts the light and hits the Moons lunar surface changing its appearance from the usual white to a majestic colour red, which is then reflected back to Earth.1


Ade sape sempat tgk gerhana bulan ?
Saya tak sempat ....




...............When is next eclipse?

21  

              21 May 2012.00

eclipse path 


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