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It doesn't make sense to tag this with the future event tag. That tag is used where the information is tentative, or subject to change. In contrast, this eclipse is an astronomical certainty.
In the unlikely event that the article transmutes to include uncertain information, then this tag will be appropriate. TJRC ( talk) 00:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I replaced the stat table with a template version, a first test of a generalize database for lunar eclipses. SockPuppetForTomruen ( talk) 23:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Are the times GMT+00? If not, why not? It would be much clearer if they were. 62.121.54.18 ( talk) 09:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
The times listed here do not match the nasa website for this
http://www.mreclipse.com/LEdata/TLE2010Dec21/TLE2010Dec21.html
66.176.72.195 (
talk) 22:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
According to The Farmer's Almanac, the full moon occurs right in the middle of this six-hour eclipse (3:15 AM EST). I find measuring and analyzing all these rotations, tilts and spins makes me dizzy, so I can't figure out if eclipses and full moons are regularly correlated or if this really is as strange a coincidence as it seems to my layman mind. If someone more moon-savvy (a lunatic?) reads this, could you either insert this factoid into the article in proper moonspeak, or discredit it and ridicule me accordingly? Also, is there a term for a full moon that also happens to appear empty?
I will resist the urge to add mentions of the 2012 "connection" till after the fact, presuming it turns out to be both notable and survivable. InedibleHulk ( talk) 07:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
gotta say thanks for a fabulous article. Curious that at one time the moon and eclipses were perhaps THE MOST important things to humans, and therefore i smile at the tag of 'LOW' importance. For me it meant a half page article in our newspaper (couple hundred thousand prints, not that important) and a substantial photo of me and a Full Eclipsed Moon. The degree of importance I suppose could be judged by the 200+ people that turned up on the southern coast to look through our telecopes, take photos, etc, probably a local and perhaps a national record for such activity, despite the 10 degrees C and the 50km/hr + Gale blowing salt water in from the ocean. The 'roaring forties' certainly roared that night. We are at 41 Degrees South. And more recently we ran a global event for NASA's INOMN, not very notable or important??. if youre on facebook you can read the article here DomPost Newspaper article on Full Moon Eclipse. . mozasaur ( talk) 05:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Paul. It should be an exciting event! But this article is actually pretty minimalist! Feel feel to improve the content. I'm more a graphics/data guy than writing prose! Tom Ruen ( talk) 07:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to point out that the claim that this is the first total lunar eclipse to take place on the same day as the December solstice is not entirely accurate. It all depends on which time zone you're using. If you're only going by UT then yes, that's true, but if you move to an area that now uses Central Standard Time in North America, or farther west, there was a total lunar eclipse on December 22, 1703 at 11:30 PM CST (-7:00) and the solstice was at 3:09 AM CST (-7:00). If the two events occur within 24 hours of each other, they will happen on the same day *somewhere* in the world. UT might be used as a standard convention, but the timing of events will still be adjusted in different parts of the world.
On the other hand, if we're looking at the last time a total lunar eclipse happened on the same day (somewhere on Earth) as the December solstice *and* it also happened before the solstice was exact (as is the case in December 2010), then yes, 1638 was the last time that happened. In the case of 1703, the solstice happened just before the eclipse. Pegasuss ( talk) 06:04, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Great article except for "Times for North America". WP:Whatever the one is that said we should be globally-relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.127.170.170 ( talk) 00:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Someone just changed the caption on the animated image of the eclipse so that it's centered. The image right above it needs the same alteration. Ztothefifth ( talk) 07:06, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Here is a external link - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yatharthgupta/5279878696/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.142.66 ( talk)
I've also put up this picture in the commons if you want to use it. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_3440-2-Watermark.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.142.66 ( talk)
No the picture in the Infobox is not a cutout from my picture. Please feel free to use it in the article anywhere —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.81 ( talk) 21:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
This section needs some hard-core refining. I've never heard that a lunar eclipse could "set" or "rise." I request some changes to that section. 70.62.142.66 ( talk) 20:45, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
This eclipse wasn't actually visible from all of North America, as the majority of the continent was "clouded out" that night. -- Denelson 83 09:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
There are a ton of photos in the gallery, we probably dont need them all. I've already removed several which are poorly cropped, low res, etc. It would be nice to have several photos of the total eclipse from multiple points on Earth (we are well on our way there) but probably dont need 3 or 4 from Florida for example (though it was one of the few places that had clear skies apparantly). Also the collages showing the progression are nice but we really only enough images to show the complete progression.-- RadioFan ( talk) 23:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
The coincidence with the solstice should make this the eclipse highest up in the sky for the northern hemisphere in quite a while, right? Maybe somebody with more astronomical knowledge can check this? -- 88.78.218.17 ( talk) 00:12, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia and other sites tell me that the solstice was December 21, 23:38 UTC. That's over 12 hours after the eclipse finished, right? For most residents of the Eastern Hemisphere, the day of the solstice would therefore have been December 22. For more than half the world (obviously including anyone - e.g. "CST" and westward in North America - who saw it start before midnight and end after midnight), the eclipse was either wholly or partly NOT on the same day as the solstice, despite what the article currently says in its first sentence and makes quite a feature about. As someone said elsewhere on this page, the questions of whether this is actually a rare coincidence, and if so is the first such "coincidence" in however many centuries, depends on where you are. Someone good with tables can work out how to display the details. Could be done on the "Local times" table - e.g. just adding more columns and many more partly shaded cells with a note explaining that the shaded-cell times were not the same day as the solstice for that timezone. Robin Patterson ( talk) 10:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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It doesn't make sense to tag this with the future event tag. That tag is used where the information is tentative, or subject to change. In contrast, this eclipse is an astronomical certainty.
In the unlikely event that the article transmutes to include uncertain information, then this tag will be appropriate. TJRC ( talk) 00:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
I replaced the stat table with a template version, a first test of a generalize database for lunar eclipses. SockPuppetForTomruen ( talk) 23:22, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
Are the times GMT+00? If not, why not? It would be much clearer if they were. 62.121.54.18 ( talk) 09:42, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
The times listed here do not match the nasa website for this
http://www.mreclipse.com/LEdata/TLE2010Dec21/TLE2010Dec21.html
66.176.72.195 (
talk) 22:26, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
According to The Farmer's Almanac, the full moon occurs right in the middle of this six-hour eclipse (3:15 AM EST). I find measuring and analyzing all these rotations, tilts and spins makes me dizzy, so I can't figure out if eclipses and full moons are regularly correlated or if this really is as strange a coincidence as it seems to my layman mind. If someone more moon-savvy (a lunatic?) reads this, could you either insert this factoid into the article in proper moonspeak, or discredit it and ridicule me accordingly? Also, is there a term for a full moon that also happens to appear empty?
I will resist the urge to add mentions of the 2012 "connection" till after the fact, presuming it turns out to be both notable and survivable. InedibleHulk ( talk) 07:50, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
gotta say thanks for a fabulous article. Curious that at one time the moon and eclipses were perhaps THE MOST important things to humans, and therefore i smile at the tag of 'LOW' importance. For me it meant a half page article in our newspaper (couple hundred thousand prints, not that important) and a substantial photo of me and a Full Eclipsed Moon. The degree of importance I suppose could be judged by the 200+ people that turned up on the southern coast to look through our telecopes, take photos, etc, probably a local and perhaps a national record for such activity, despite the 10 degrees C and the 50km/hr + Gale blowing salt water in from the ocean. The 'roaring forties' certainly roared that night. We are at 41 Degrees South. And more recently we ran a global event for NASA's INOMN, not very notable or important??. if youre on facebook you can read the article here DomPost Newspaper article on Full Moon Eclipse. . mozasaur ( talk) 05:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks Paul. It should be an exciting event! But this article is actually pretty minimalist! Feel feel to improve the content. I'm more a graphics/data guy than writing prose! Tom Ruen ( talk) 07:47, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
I wanted to point out that the claim that this is the first total lunar eclipse to take place on the same day as the December solstice is not entirely accurate. It all depends on which time zone you're using. If you're only going by UT then yes, that's true, but if you move to an area that now uses Central Standard Time in North America, or farther west, there was a total lunar eclipse on December 22, 1703 at 11:30 PM CST (-7:00) and the solstice was at 3:09 AM CST (-7:00). If the two events occur within 24 hours of each other, they will happen on the same day *somewhere* in the world. UT might be used as a standard convention, but the timing of events will still be adjusted in different parts of the world.
On the other hand, if we're looking at the last time a total lunar eclipse happened on the same day (somewhere on Earth) as the December solstice *and* it also happened before the solstice was exact (as is the case in December 2010), then yes, 1638 was the last time that happened. In the case of 1703, the solstice happened just before the eclipse. Pegasuss ( talk) 06:04, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
Great article except for "Times for North America". WP:Whatever the one is that said we should be globally-relevant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.127.170.170 ( talk) 00:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Someone just changed the caption on the animated image of the eclipse so that it's centered. The image right above it needs the same alteration. Ztothefifth ( talk) 07:06, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
Here is a external link - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yatharthgupta/5279878696/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.142.66 ( talk)
I've also put up this picture in the commons if you want to use it. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMG_3440-2-Watermark.jpg —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.62.142.66 ( talk)
No the picture in the Infobox is not a cutout from my picture. Please feel free to use it in the article anywhere —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.107.0.81 ( talk) 21:16, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
This section needs some hard-core refining. I've never heard that a lunar eclipse could "set" or "rise." I request some changes to that section. 70.62.142.66 ( talk) 20:45, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
This eclipse wasn't actually visible from all of North America, as the majority of the continent was "clouded out" that night. -- Denelson 83 09:42, 22 December 2010 (UTC)
There are a ton of photos in the gallery, we probably dont need them all. I've already removed several which are poorly cropped, low res, etc. It would be nice to have several photos of the total eclipse from multiple points on Earth (we are well on our way there) but probably dont need 3 or 4 from Florida for example (though it was one of the few places that had clear skies apparantly). Also the collages showing the progression are nice but we really only enough images to show the complete progression.-- RadioFan ( talk) 23:22, 21 December 2010 (UTC)
The coincidence with the solstice should make this the eclipse highest up in the sky for the northern hemisphere in quite a while, right? Maybe somebody with more astronomical knowledge can check this? -- 88.78.218.17 ( talk) 00:12, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
Wikipedia and other sites tell me that the solstice was December 21, 23:38 UTC. That's over 12 hours after the eclipse finished, right? For most residents of the Eastern Hemisphere, the day of the solstice would therefore have been December 22. For more than half the world (obviously including anyone - e.g. "CST" and westward in North America - who saw it start before midnight and end after midnight), the eclipse was either wholly or partly NOT on the same day as the solstice, despite what the article currently says in its first sentence and makes quite a feature about. As someone said elsewhere on this page, the questions of whether this is actually a rare coincidence, and if so is the first such "coincidence" in however many centuries, depends on where you are. Someone good with tables can work out how to display the details. Could be done on the "Local times" table - e.g. just adding more columns and many more partly shaded cells with a note explaining that the shaded-cell times were not the same day as the solstice for that timezone. Robin Patterson ( talk) 10:05, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
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