December 2010

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Mydog Drags Her Back Legs

If you could keep all women in the world you wanted, what would you choose now? Sounds very tempting, but despite appearances is not an easy decision. That's what happens to me where I have iTunes songs to listen to for 7 days straight without repeating one. I always hard when I turn the iPod choose where to start, so many choices make me think too much and this decision takes more time than it should. No rant against the new, I have a lot of freak to want the last thing that comes out and the only thing that will not allow me my economy. And that's exactly where the issue lies. Today, although it is not correct, these payments Music is free, just need a powerful broadband connection, memory and patience, that is all that separates you from being the owner of your record store (virtual). The dream come true for any music lover from the beginning of time. Incredible, practical, but I can not feel nostalgic about when I could buy one or two discs per month. Why? Because values. Because anxious to return from the record store to listen to this album (cassette or CD) at home meant everything was to discover, hear many, many times, observe carefully the cover art (or whatever you put there), read the lyrics if included, making the most of the maximum was a conquest and hence the parallel with the first paragraph. As I write this I can be down ten albums (and archaic concept) which may not finish listening to whole or half and probably only one has the fortune to sound more than once, sad truth. It's like being rich and not know what to do with money. There is always much more.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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and December solstice

ECLIPSE FULL MOON, DECEMBER 21, 2010

The last lunar eclipse 2010 d will be well positioned to observers in the Americas. The eclipse will occur 4 days before perigee.

The orbital path of the Moon will transit through the northern half of the shadow of the Earth's umbra. Although the eclipse will not be "central", the total phase will last 72 minutes.

At the time of eclipse, when the phase starts "eclipse" the moon will take a red-orange color.

In the photo, during an eclipse total de Luna in 2004, Moon on the right shows its appearance when the phase starts "eclipse" the moon in the center is maximum during the eclipse and the moon to the left shows the final phase of "total ".

Why the Moon looks red? During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth keeps sunlight from reaching the Moon. Astronauts on the moon to Earth would completely eclipse the Sun (would observe a 'ring' red around the Earth to see all the rising and setting of the sun that would be occurring simultaneously in the world) While the Moon remains completely within the shadow the umbra of the Earth, indirectly, the sunlight still manages to illuminate the Moon. However, this sunlight must first pass through the Earth's atmosphere filters out most blue light. What remains is a light red-orange color and is much weaker than the white light of the sun the earth's atmosphere also bends or refracts some of this light and a very small fraction reaches the moon and the lights.

If Earth had no atmosphere, then the Moon would be completely dark during a total eclipse. The exact appearance depends on how many clouds are present in the Earth's atmosphere. Total eclipses tend to be very dark after major volcanic eruptions since these events send large amount of ash into the atmosphere. During the total lunar eclipse in December 1992, dust from Mount Pinatubo caused the Moon was nearly invisible.

The total lunar eclipse of December 21, 2010, reaches its maximum at 8:16:57 UT, start taking a reddish hue when the total phase begins at 7:40:47 UT, the phase total end at 8:53:08 UT

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entire event will be visible in North America and much of Latin South. Only the coast The Brazilian will miss the total eclipse stages because they occur after the moon is hidden. Likewise, Europe and Africa will experience the start of the Moon while the eclipse is in progress. Only northern Scandinavia you can see all the events in Europe. For observers in East Asia and the moon will eclipse the horizon. Any stage of the eclipse will be visible in the southern and eastern Africa, the Middle East or South Asia.

visibility zones according to NASA (dar click to enlarge)

These are the areas of visibility in stages, if you can not see your city on the map according to the stage, then this stage will not be visible.

During the high point of the eclipse, most of the East of Brazil will miss that stage. Cities such as Montevideo will have only a few minutes to see the maximum phase before hiding the moon, cities in Argentina to the maximum phase will occur with the Moon near the western horizon, observe achieved this stage but will miss the rest. Luna in Spain be hidden before the start of the peak stage, only able to observe the initial stages. Some areas of Portugal will get to observe the highest stage a few minutes. Only North American and Scandinavian countries will see from beginning to end the eclipse. Although as already mentioned, the best time, the maximum phase, the will see almost everyone in the Americas with the exception of the east coast of Brazil. The cities in central and western Brazil will see the eclipse at its peak phase.

SOLSTICE DECEMBER 21 December, will also be given the solstice (winter solstice for the northern hemisphere solstice summer for the southern hemisphere) Total eclipses of the moon during the Northern Hemisphere winter are common. There have been three in the last 10 years. However, a total lunar eclipse coincides with the solstice day is rare. According to data from NASA, the last time the two events coincided was in 1638, also by 21 December.

So be ready telescopes, cameras and binoculars. Or the naked eye, will be a great event to watch. Good weather at all!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Stage Four Pitted Edema

Rain Geminids meteor

This is one of the best meteor showers of the year and never seems to disappoint observers. Peaks between the night of 13 December and early 14. Most meteor showers of debris from comets, but the Geminids are thought to come from the debris of an asteroid. The debris are larger, therefore the Geminids tend to be more bright and spectacular than the others.

This meteor shower called the Geminids because they appear to emerge from the constellation Gemini. A person the Northern Hemisphere may begin to observe the Geminids from December 6, whenever there is a meteor hour. Over the next week, the average increases to 50-80 meteors per hour on the night of 13 and morning of 14 December. The Geminids are seen last on December 18, when you can see a meteor per hour.

A burning Geminids on the Mojave Desert in December 2009

For observers in the southern hemisphere, the radiant is never placed so high as in the Northern Hemisphere, while further south is the city, further north appears radiant and this will reduce the number of meteors that can be observed. However, this does not stop on the night of 13 and morning of 14 can watch a good show in the sky.

The radiant is located in the constellation Gemini. It's called radiant, because from the perspective of an observer on Earth, the meteors appear to come from a particular area. You do not need the exact location of the time to look radiant, because meteors will be 'flying' across the sky, but the closer you look more radiant meteors will locate.

Moon crescent phase, will be hidden by the West no later than 1:30 am on December 14 (regardless of your location). Gemini will appear in the east at sunset and reach the top of the sky about 2 hours in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere Gemini makes its appearance later depending on the latitude, farther south in places like Argentina, Gemini appears in the north around midnight.


If you have trouble locating a Gemini, Orion locates which is easy to identify with the belt of Orion. Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky can also help you locate Orion or Gemini.

Remember that for the Northern Hemisphere, Gemini rises in the east at sunset, to go placing higher and higher until you reach the top of your head around 2 am on 14 December.

For the Southern Hemisphere, the more you move away from Ecuador, Gemini will be placed further north, and rises in the east around midnight. If you are away from Ecuador, Gemini rises in the east earlier and be located closer to the center of the sky.

Watching from a city with lots of light pollution reduces the number of meteors visible. So it is best to get away to rural areas to observe a greater number of meteors.