Google and Slooh To Broadcast Lunar Eclipse 50
An anonymous reader writes "Today Google and Slooh, the online Space Camera, are broadcasting a live online feed of the total lunar eclipse starting at 2:00 PM EDT. The live feed can be accessed at Slooh's Mission Interface and also as a featured video stream on Google's channel on YouTube. Live audio narration by astronomy experts will accompany the live feed. This online astronomy collaboration will allow people all over the world to watch this rare celestial event."
OK folks, crank up the Pink Floyd! (Score:2)
How to see the unseeable (Score:1)
Mission confidence . . . (Score:1)
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. . . cat, fart, nut kicking and farting cat getting kicked in the nuts videos . . .
Thank goodness someone has finally subscribed to my channel!
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Slashdot is nothing compared to the hordes of users uploading cat, fart, nut kicking and farting cat getting kicked in the nuts videos daily. I'm pretty sure the servers will perceive this slashdot effect as a slight tickle.
Wrong, slashdot just broke youtube:
500 Internal Server Error
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A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
Slooh? (Score:2)
Rare? (Score:2)
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From the Wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2011_lunar_eclipse)
"This is a relatively rare central lunar eclipse where the center point of Earth's shadow is on the disk. The last time a lunar eclipse was closer to the center of the earth's shadow was on July 16, 2000. The next central total lunar eclipse will be on July 27, 2018."
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This.
If I counted correctly there were 82 total lunar eclipses in the twentieth century, so nearly one every year on average. Some years actually had two, but there were many gaps greater than one year.
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Re:Rare? (Score:4, Insightful)
The rarity is in actually getting to see it. For most of North America, it's on the wrong side of the planet right now.
For large parts of Europe, cloud cover is ruining things.
So while there may be one almost every year, the number that you could see from your location is much lower, and the number that you actually -can- see, due to clouds or fog or whatever, is lower still.
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True, but when one says something is not rare, one usually refers to the existence not being uncommon, not my ability to witness it.
Example: jury trials are common occurrences, but I've never seen one myself except as portrayed in movies and TV shows. I would not say jury trials are rare because I haven't seen one.
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Sounds a bit dull to me. Some things just don't translate that well to a computer monitor.
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Anyway, It's cool to see, at least once. I'd rather wait 10 years to see it where I live, then watch a video or travel somewhere to see it.
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It's not a pay service, it's an ad-supported service. I don't see what's wrong with that - instead of some project coming out of NASA's budget, a company is showing you ads to pay for it.
Though I wish they had found a better advertiser than Transformers 3. I'm half-expecting Michael Bay to blow up the moon mid-eclipse now...
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It's not a pay service, it's an ad-supported service. I don't see what's wrong with that - ...
Well, I do. ;-) I decided to give it a try, and so far I've seen the dorky ad for their new image search feature over a dozen times, but so far no sign of any eclipse video. The bar at the top says it's "live from 11am to 3pm PDT", which started a few minutes ago, so I'm wondering if it's not working, or if I have to register for something to see it, or what. I firt tried it with firefox on this Macbook, then when that failed, switched to chrome, which behaves exactly the same way.
Anyone know what mag
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lrn2adblock
Can you do that with Chrome? ;-)
Actually, I started with Firefox, which has AdblockPlus installed. I told it to enable everything for the http://www.youtube.com/google [youtube.com] "site", which didn't change anything. Then I changed to Chrome, which as far as I can tell, doesn't do ad blocking (BICBW).
In any case, what does this have to do with my question, which is "How do I watch the eclipse"? Further poking around at various things on the page hasn't resulted in enlightenment. Or any change in behavior, for
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Well, the "live" link suddenly worked a while ago, after I'd been away from the screen for a while. I got the darkened moon (and 3 stars) on the screen then. Now, the left (east) edge of the moon is getting brighter.
The image does seem to jump around occasionally. A start that was at the right edge disappeared after one jump, then reappeared after the next. It's gone again now, and there don't seem to be any more stars visible. I'm guessing that the light level is being adjusted to match the moon's b
Late Announcement? (Score:1)
Why did they wait until the day of the event to announce it? Thank god for slashdot!
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Could be worse. (Score:2)
At least it's not Apple behind this. They'd be announcing an iEclipse(tm) of the iMoon (tm). And it would be pay per view.
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only on Macs running ver 10.6.7 and above.
How long until we see this headline? (Score:1)
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"Google to initiate lunar eclipse"
What I'm looking for is the flame wars over what effect this eclipse will have on global warming (oops, I mean climate change), whether Obama or Bush (or God) is responsible for the moon going dark, and the many other such threads that infest most discussions here.
Someone please tell me who is commentating (Score:2)
Re:Someone please tell me who is commentating (Score:5, Funny)
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A tradition like no other..... (Score:1)
oh...and good job on the app....I'm watching it on my XOO....oh wait...I'm not....can't get the app on the XOOM. Stupid unsupported devices. Stupid fragmentation
Live feed down! (Score:1)