Solar Eclipse Live From China
At starting at
8:55PM on July
21, 2009 in the planetarium of Montgomery College at Takoma Park/Silver
Spring campus we will use the Internet to watch the eclipse live that
is happening when the sun is shining in India, China, and the Pacific
Ocean, but it is night here an no solar eclipse is visible from our
location directly via a line of sight. On March 3, 2007 we
watched a live web cast of a Lunar Eclipse from our fiends in Ahvaz,
Iran which was mostly clouded out here in Montgomery County. It
is now possible to see celestial spectacles anywhere on the earth from
some place where it is clear.
Because of time zone differences 0:55UT on July 22, 2009 in China is
8:55PM Daylight Eastern Standard Time on July 21, 2009 here in the
Washington Metro area.
http://eclipse.astronomy2009.org.cn/english/,
"With
the maximum duration of 6 min 39 s, it is the longest solar eclipse in
the 21st century. Chinese mainland, along Yangtze River, is the most
convenient region for observation for the eclipse. Since the weather
condition in this region on July 22 is very hard to forecast, Chinese
Astronomical Society, the host of IYA 2009 in China, organizes a large
scale live broadcast program for the eclipse event, to try our best to
let everyone have chance to enjoy the great event.
The project, "Multi-site Federated Live Broadcast of Solar Eclipse on
July 22, International Year of Astronomy 2009", will take full
advantages of the latest technologies in network, multimedia and the
emerging Web 2.0 technologies. Multiple observation sites will be
organized inside the wide eclipse region, especially large cities
inside the total solar eclipse belt. Signals from different sites will
be collected to a central broadcast studio through high-speed network
backbones. After synthesization, public signal will be released to
various portals, including website, TV, mobile phone, etc, and then
accessible for the public through these portals. "
http://www.shadowandsubstance.com/
http://xjubier.free.fr/en/site_pages/solar_eclipses/TSE_2009_GoogleMapFull.html
NASA Eclipse page, "Eclipse Predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA/GSFC" http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse.html
Montgomery
College's Planetarium home page
Web page by Dr. Harold Alden Williams.
Last changed 5:43PM July 11, 2009.