The Triple eclipse was seen with a beginning of a lunar eclipse on July 7th, succeeded by a solar eclipse on July 22nd, and will be topped off with another lunar eclipse on August 7th. Some of the world’s leading astrologers surmised that the eclipse will influence the sea level and slightly the water content in the human body also. This will tend to cause some variations in the body temperature and dehydration, which would lead to various problems. It can even be very harmful for the human body. The astrological societies tell about some of the occurrences of triple eclipses s tell about which occurred during in the past:
- The World War I
- World War II
- The Holocaust
- The Nuclear Bombings in Hiroshima, Nagasaki (Japan)
- Kurukshetra War
- The destruction of Dwaraka City
I think it’s appropriate to say that we’re again in for a gruesome ride. Are we imputable for another nuclear catastrophic event? Or will it result in total human annihilation?
Eclipses have been always associated with bad luck – but let’s take a look at the facts now and forget the astrological humbug:
Basically Triple Eclipse means a series of three eclipses; a lunar, a solar and another lunar eclipse taking place over the skies. However quite to our dismay experts’ say this phenomenon is not rare, will nevertheless be nature’s grand spectacle and continue for a few years from now. This penumbral eclipse was so slight -approximately 8 % – that it was not be visible to all in one half of earth but specific parts. The next part of triple eclipse – a solar eclipse – was visible across a 220-km belt in Asia including major parts of India and China. What we saw, was the longest solar occultation of the 21st century and visible for 6min44sec only in the southern islands of Japan. The next solar eclipse will be occurring on Jan 15, 2010.
This Triple eclipse is of special interest for the scientists, astronomers and people all over the world as its path of totality passes through specific parts of Asia after a very long time. Although the intensity of these eclipses will be high, visibility will depend on clouds and weather at different places. After this solar eclipse, we will be witnessing another lunar eclipse, on Aug 6. On the same day, will also be a penumbral lunar eclipse which will be about 15 percent. Although this sounds one of a kind, experts tell that a triple eclipse is not a rare occurrence. Last triple eclipse occurred in 1991 when there was a lunar eclipse on June 27 and on July 26 with the solar eclipse sandwiched in between on July 11. So a triple eclipse is not very uncommon.
Let’s wait and watch what Nostradamus has in his list for us this time!
This is just a short post about an interesting piece of software I recently found: Stellarium (http://www.stellarium.org/).
I have not tried it in depth yet but it sounds promising – have a look at the feature list from the homepage:
in version 0.10.2
sky
- default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
- extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars
- asterisms and illustrations of the constellations
- constellations for twelve different cultures
- images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue)
- realistic Milky Way
- very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset
- the planets and their satellites
interface
- a powerful zoom
- time control
- multilingual interface
- fisheye projection for planetarium domes
- spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome
- all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard control
- telescope control
visualisation
- equatorial and azimuthal grids
- star twinkling
- shooting stars
- eclipse simulation
- skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection
customisability
- add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts…
The software is open source and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux – if you have experience with this program, please drop a comment down here on this site…
Virtual lunar Atlas is a program that allows us to observe and study the moon and its surface. It was developed by Christian Legrand and Patrick Chevalley. This program is basically developed for cheering special interest for astronomers, amateurs, and all those interested in exploring the Earth’s natural satellite- The Moon. Due to its precision and detail of its data, Virtual Lunar Atlas has won the recognition of astronomers and prestigious scientific publications. Now it is downloaded more than 500 000 times all over the globe. It has been referred in Chandrayaan 1 lunar mission preparation (India). It is also been recommended by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the French Ministry of National Education.
Photlun is picture manager which has changed the perspective of scientists and researchers towards geographical features of moon. This software allows us to modify pictures, photos of moon’s surfaces in a never done approach using programs that are inbuilt in it. This allows scientists to accurately plan landings of lunar modules or study characteristic features on the surface of moon.
Photlun is basically a Virtual Lunar Atlas which help in finding and studying selected topographical areas on moon. This atlas also contains some 3D views of areas, can be used to check the longitude, latitude and elevation of craters on surfaces with the specific programs available. Even pictures of a surface that is not clearly visible on some areas can be improved by enhancing the brightness, contrast and sharpness or enlarge by its specific commands and features.
a)In this snapshot of working of PhotLun one can study the topology in detail as never done before.
b)One of the many high quality pictures provided by PhotLun. You can clearly verify its unique resolution power.
The latest super- high resolution LOPAM texture built on USGS data improves a lot formations regarding findings and vision
This software gives an added advantage by proving 450 High Resolution [HD] images of lunar surfaces taken through various satellites which orbit moon. Its powerful software configuration is compatible with many operating systems including MacOS and Windows Vista thus enhancing its adaptability and compatibility with latest hardware in the market.
The program’s basic interface is available in two languages i.e. English and French, however extra translations can be freely downloaded from the developers’ website.
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