m3t00🌎 voted@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoNova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day nowarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down11
arrow-up1144arrow-down1external-linkNova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day nowarstechnica.comm3t00🌎 voted@lemmy.worldM to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareJakdracula@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months ago“Predictions in astronomy come in two flavors. One is super precise—like the eclipse is going to pass over the city of Houston at exactly 11:35 pm.” I presume he means a total lunar eclipse, but I didn’t know that one can pass over a city. I think he meant an instead of pm?
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 months agoLunar eclipses have a range they’re visible from just like solar eclipses do, but they tend to be much larger since it depends only on if the side of the moon being eclipsed is visible from a given location at the time
minus-squareJakdracula@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoUnderstood, but, do they “pass overhead”? I have only heard this term used in discussions about total solar eclipses.
minus-squarePennomi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 months agoI mean, an eclipse certainly isn’t moving underground…
minus-squareemmanuel_car@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 months agoDepends which side of the planet you’re on
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI’d imagine they pass overhead in a similar way to that total solar eclipses do.
minus-squarem3t00🌎 voted@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agosaw one that could only be seen from planes over a pole N/S? forget
“Predictions in astronomy come in two flavors. One is super precise—like the eclipse is going to pass over the city of Houston at exactly 11:35 pm.”
I presume he means a total lunar eclipse, but I didn’t know that one can pass over a city. I think he meant an instead of pm?
Lunar eclipses have a range they’re visible from just like solar eclipses do, but they tend to be much larger since it depends only on if the side of the moon being eclipsed is visible from a given location at the time
Understood, but, do they “pass overhead”? I have only heard this term used in discussions about total solar eclipses.
I mean, an eclipse certainly isn’t moving underground…
Depends which side of the planet you’re on
I’d imagine they pass overhead in a similar way to that total solar eclipses do.
saw one that could only be seen from planes over a pole N/S? forget