May 20th 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse, page 1


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reply posted on 20-5-2012 @ 05:05 PM by SubPop79
reply to post by proob4


Yea, maybe for you lucky ones on the West Coast. I'm not gonna see any of it here in Virginia. Another non-day here. Guess whose getting shiftaced tonight.



reply posted on 20-5-2012 @ 05:13 PM by GmoS719
Originally posted by SubPop79
reply to post by proob4


Yea, maybe for you lucky ones on the West Coast. I'm not gonna see any of it here in Virginia. Another non-day here. Guess whose getting shiftaced tonight.


It's not just the west coast, it's basically everything west of the Mississippi river.

Let me know how it taced lol...ew


reply posted on 20-5-2012 @ 05:23 PM by GmoS719
reply to post by MamaJ

I don't think you are going to be able to see it in Tennesee?
You might catch the beginning of it? IDK


reply posted on 20-5-2012 @ 05:48 PM by proob4
reply to post by haven123


Yea that was a really good show. I thought it looked real good, expecially when the clouds came in. Looked so omnious.


reply posted on 30-5-2012 @ 11:04 AM by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by CityFarmer
Originally posted by Soylent Green Is People
Originally posted by CityFarmer
Any video from SOHO/STEREO/?

SOHO and STEREO are not near the earth, so they will not see this eclipse. Those spacecrafts' point-of-view relationship between themselves, the Moon, and the Sun is different than for the people on Earth who can see this.

In fact, not everyone on Earth even has the proper vantage point to see the Moon get in front of the Sun.



Thank you I didn't realize STEREO and SOHO were so far from earth Thought they were more like huge zooming lenses.

Peace


The location of SOHO is still relatively closer to the Earth than to the Sun, and the two STEREO spacecraft (even though the two STEREO spacecraft are far from Earth) orbit the Sun at about the same distance that the Earth orbits -- about 93 million miles. Because they are far from the Sun.

Therefore, both SOHO and STEREO still have telescopic optics that give them a "zoomed" image of the Sun.

SOHO is very close to the earth (about 1 Million miles from Earth, but over 90 Million miles from the Sun), but is still outside the orbit of the Moon, so it would never see an eclipse (i.e., the moon would never get between it and the Sun). SOHO orbits around the Sun near the L1 "Lagrangian Point".

Lagrangian points:
www.esa.int...
en.wikipedia.org...

SOHO's Orbit:



The two STEREO spacecraft orbit the Sun along two points that are relatively close to the path along which the Earth orbits the Sun. They, too, are well outside the orbit of the Moon, so the Moon can never get between them and the Sun.

Here is a website that will show you the locations of STEREO A and B on a specific date:
stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov...

Here's a video that shows the locations of the two STEREO spacecraft from their launch to their projected locations up to 2019:
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