On 12/6/2011 9:20 PM, David Erbas-White wrote:Some additional follow-up - this eclipse will give you an opportunity (about a 3-minute window) to view something that 'ought' to be impossible -- viewing both the sun and the moon during a lunar eclipse (due to optics of the atmosphere). The moon will still be in eclipse before it sets, with the sun rising...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45589117/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/lunar-eclipse-will-include-impossible-sight/ David Erbas-White
For an extra reason to get up early and go to the launch on Saturday (or to get out there Friday night for an early-morning viewing), there will be a total lunar eclipse beginning at approximately 4:45AM Saturday morning. Being out in the cool desert air, the viewing should be great...http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2011-Fig06.pdfhttp://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/02dec_lunareclipse/David Erbas-White
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