Sun-Eclipse-Moon... and Saturn{i've got real work to do,so i must be brief}

By Greg Piepol





Three by Barry Kierstein aboard a Pacific cruise ship



By Larry Koehn

"There will be a lunar eclipse on April 24th. It's a penumbral eclipse, which means that the Moon only skims the pale, outer fringes of Earth's shadow. Penumbral eclipses are notoriously difficult to observe. Nevertheless, a subtle yet distinct shading should be visible across the northern half of the Moon during greatest eclipse, around 09:55 UT. For North Americans, that's Sunday morning at 2:55 a.m. PDT (5:55 a.m. EDT)."

See "Eclipses in 2005" for more on that last paragraph.



"W00006293.jpg was taken on April 19, 2005, and received on Earth on April 20, 2005. The camera was pointing toward SATURN-RINGS at approximately 1,994,825 kilometers away."