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Eclipse 101 For Astronauts

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
August 7, 2017
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NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

11 responses to “Eclipse 101 For Astronauts”

  1. moon2mars says:
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    Par for the course, most astronauts have a rudimentary knowledge at best of astronomy and planetary science.

  2. MarcNBarrett says:
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    Yes, a solar eclipse is always a new moon, a lunar eclipse is a full moon.

  3. A_J_Cook says:
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    The August 7 Full Moon is a partial lunar eclipse, visible mostly from the eastern hemisphere.

  4. A_J_Cook says:
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    There is always a lunar eclipse that precedes or follows a solar eclipse by two weeks.

  5. John Thomas says:
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    For DSCOVR, it will be a full moon 🙂

    • fcrary says:
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      Now that you mention it, DSCOVR/EPIC has done images of eclipse shadows and of lunar transits before. I hope they make a big deal about this one. The publicity might help with continued funding. Unfortunately, I didn’t find anything on their web page about the upcoming eclipse.

  6. Michael Spencer says:
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    I wonder—with the approval of our host—how many people frequenting this site are making plans to see the eclipse? And who is traveling the furtherest?

    We are going up to the St. Louis area from SW Florida; not very far really.

    • fcrary says:
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      I waited too long and got priced out. (Even six months ago, do you know what a Motel 6 in Casper, Wyoming was going for?) But we’ll have 94% totality in Boulder.

      • Michael Spencer says:
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        Hit I25 north; you don’t have to go far for 100%, and it’s a huge difference.

        Though I suppose the freeway will be busy.

    • A_J_Cook says:
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      We’ll be driving from Los Angeles to Weiser, Idaho.

    • hikingmike says:
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      I live in the STL area. I’ll be camping down in Missourah. Not far 🙂 Less than 2 hr drive and we’ll be further than we need to be. A 1hr drive would have been enough to get right in the middle.