Set your alarm! Wake up & see a total lunar eclipse!

Stay 'Up All Night' to Watch the Lunar Eclipse! Set your alarm! Wake up & see a total lunar #eclipse! Starts at ~2am ET & peaks at 3:45am: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/watchtheskies/lunar-eclipse-2014.html#.U0yCU_ldWSr … pic.twitter.com/691Pc1ZY5I Spring is here and ready to capture the world's attention with a total lunar eclipse. The eclipse will begin early on the morning of April 15 at approximately 2 a.m. EDT. If you have questions about the eclipse, this will be your chance! NASA astronomer Mitzi Adams and astrophysicist Alphonse Sterling will also answer questions in a live web chat, beginning on April 15 at 1 a.m. EDT and continuing through the end of the eclipse (approximately 5 a.m. EDT). The chat module will go live on this page at approximately 12:45 a.m. EDT. Convert to your local time here. A live Ustream view of the lunar eclipse will be streamed on this page on the night of the event, courtesy of Marshall Space Flight Center. The feed will feature a variety of lunar eclipse views from telescopes around the United States. New York (U.S.A. - New York) Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 2:00:00 AM EDT UTC-4 hours Doha (Qatar) Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 9:00:00 AM AST UTC+3 hours Corresponding UTC (GMT) Tuesday, April 15, 2014 at 06:00:00 April 11, 2014 MEDIA ADVISORY M14-067 NASA to Provide Live Coverage and Commentary of April 15 Lunar Eclipse The public will have the opportunity to view and learn more about the Tuesday, April 15 total lunar eclipse on NASA television, the agency’s website, and social media. Coverage begins at 2 a.m. EDT and will last about three hours. The eclipse’s peak, when the moon will enter the Earth's full shadow or umbra, will occur at 3:45 a.m. The United States will be in a prime orbital position and time of day to view the eclipse. Depending on local weather conditions, the public will get a spectacular view looking into the sky as the moon's appearance will change from bright orange to blood red to dark brown and perhaps gray. The eclipse is a phenomenon that occurs when the Earth, moon and sun are in perfect alignment, blanketing the moon in the Earth's shadow. The United States will not be able to witness a full lunar eclipse in its entirety again until 2019. Leading up to the eclipse, NASA will host a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Monday, April 14 at 2 p.m. with astronomers from the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center. Various NASA researchers also will be available for media interviews. NASA Twitter, Google+, Facebook, and Instagram followers will be able to join the conversation and ask questions using the hashtag #eclipse. The public will be able to tag and share their images of the eclipsed moon on Instagram and on the agency’s Flickr group at: https://www.flickr.com/groups/nasalunareclipse Lunar eclipse video resources are available at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/Gallery/2014TotalLunarEclipse.html Live NASA TV coverage and commentary will begin at 1 a.m. To view the coverage and access eclipse streaming video, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv For more information on NASA’s eclipse activities, visit: http://go.nasa.gov/1kkfFXX -end- Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Janet Anderson Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 janet.l.anderson@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov ============ Eclipse of 24 April 2014, the Sun Will Moves Ring of Fire Science International 1 April 24, 2014 17:07 Eclipses produce effects that make the Sun will appear like a ring of fire or 'ring of fire'. Liputan6.com, Greenbelt - After a unique lunar eclipse 15 April 2014, which makes satellite Earth-like reddish colored blood, we turn called a solar eclipse that will take place on 29 April 2014, including parts of Indonesia. That will happen next Tuesday instead of a total solar eclipse. Because, at that time, the Moon is close to the greatest distance from Earth, making it too small to cover the Sun shadow. Produce effects that make the Sun will appear like a ring of fire or 'ring of fire' - a 'ring' that surrounds the Moon disc darker, in the sky some remote parts of the world. Unfortunately, most people will not see the eclipse as a whole. The only place in the world where solar eclipse visible ring is smaller remote areas in Antarctica. However, the phase of the eclipse will be partially visible in some areas, including the Australian continent. Best view will be seen from the state of Tasmania. Of Hobart, capital of Tasmania, will eclipse begins when the Moon covers a small portion at the edge of the Sun at 15:51 local time or at 12:51 pm. The maximum eclipse will occur at 18:00 or 14:00 pm, then the Sun will sink at 18:17 local time. WARNING: Do not look directly at the sun during an eclipse with a telescope or the naked eye. As a result it can be dangerous, causing damage to the eye. Scientists use special filters or filter to be safe when looking towards the sun during an eclipse. Partial solar eclipse has the greatest potential for causing damage to the eye because there is never a moment when the Sun is completely covered by the Moon. The sun itself is not dangerous during an eclipse. Danger comes from people's desire to see it, to refrain from natural reflex that drives the Sun that we see not as usual. The safest way to view a solar eclipse is to project the image, or use special glasses or welder pinhole camera. Do not take the risk, see the eclipse directly using a filter that has not proven his ability. (Yus Ariyanto) ======================= PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSE On Tuesday 29th April (Melbourne – 5:59pm – 6:09pm) there will be a Partial Solar Eclipse across most of Australia, Salaat-ul-Ayaat is Compulsory(wajib) during the time of the eclipse and if missed can be prayed as Qaza. see the link below to find out how to perform namaz e ayyat. Ayatullah sistani's official website. http://www.sistani.org/english/book/48/2258/ ==================== Rare eclipse will make Sun look like ‘fat banana’ from Earth on Tuesday morning Published time: April 29, 2014 00:16 Edited time: April 29, 2014 06:24 Get short URL ARCHIVE PHOTO: helicopter returning from the Sunflower wildfire passes in front of the solar eclipse over Payson, Arizona, May 20, 2012 (Reuters / Jeff Robbins) A solar eclipse that occurs on average only once every 73 years may be perfectly witnessed only by penguins in Antarctica, while watchers in Australia will see the sun as a “super-fat banana”. The event, which can be witnessed in Perth, Australia from 0500 GMT on April 29, is an annular eclipse – meaning that the moon is too far away to completely block out the sun, instead creating a perfect “ring of fire”. Such eclipses are relatively common, with about four every five years, and the last one occurred in May last year. What makes this eclipse – the first of 2014 - unusual is that it is non-central, meaning that the center of the Moon’s shadow will not fall on Earth, instead passing above the Southern Hemisphere sky. Of 3,956 annular eclipses calculated to have happened or scheduled to happen between 2,000 BC and 3,000 AD only 68, or 1.7 percent, are non-central annular eclipses. This is only the third such event since the 17th century. As most of the shadow will miss Earth – the perfect spot to watch the eclipse at its most symmetrical would have been above the planet – the only place where the “ring of fire”, or annulus, can be seen at all is in Antarctica. The spot is half way between the Dumont d’Urville and Concordia stations – located 1,100 km apart – meaning that in all likelihood no human will witness the unusual phenomenon. "This is a thoroughly bizarre eclipse," said a statement from Bob Berman, an astronomer with the Slooh Space Camera, which broadcasts astral events online. Screenshot from youtube by Slooh “As we will watch in real time as the inky black hemisphere of the moon partially obscures the sun, the greatest thrill might be an awareness of what's occurring — unseen by any human — in a tiny region of Antarctica." For sentient observers, due to the imperfect angle of observation the phenomenon "won't look any different from a normal, partial eclipse," Stephen Hughes told Australian Associated Press. A partial eclipse occurs when the Sun and the Moon do not fully align, so that the latter blocks out only a chunk of the former. About half the Sun will be covered when the eclipse passes Sydney, and more than two thirds over Melbourne. "Melbourne will be quite a bit better than Sydney ... a super-fat banana," said Hughes. The eclipse will also be noticeable in southern Indonesian islands. NASA has published an interactive map that allows Australasian residents to see when the eclipse will pass through their area, but as usual, amateur sky-watchers are instructed to avoid looking at the Sun without protective equipment. ==================