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OT: Solar Eclipse Pictures

Taken in Albuquerque NM  [GPS 35.139481,-106.554013]  yesterday


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Very cool pics, wish we could have seen this on the east coast

Yes, very nice! My four -(soon to be five-)year old has become quite an astronomy fan and got really excited when he heard there was going to be an eclipse. You would have thought Buzz Lightyear died if you had seen his face when I told him it wouldn't be visible where we live. Maybe showing him your pictures when I get home from work will cheer him up a bit.

Very nice photo's . It was way to overcast and raining for me to view it lastnight,  bummer . thanks for posting.

Aaron, did you watch it over the internet?  This site has live feeds of events like that.  Soon they should have video up.  You can use the same address on your mobile phone.  I watched on my mobile phone as I was taking photos.

Wow, very impressive photos,
thanks from the east coast.

I did not, but that is a great site and I have bookmarked it! He loved the still photos. He won't be five until next month and he can name all of the planets in order plus the names of most of the known dwarf planets. I am having a heck of a time finding new material for him. Luckily the local library has a good selection of space-related books.

I don't know the exact definition Noss, but it is something like a body that has it's own gravity but not enough to clear it's orbit of other objects. Pluto was down graded to dwarf status in 2008 and they have discovered one in the asteroid belt (Ceres) and three more beyoud Pluto (Eris, Makemake, and Haumea). Until I read about them to my son in his library books I had never even heard of them. He has really taken the bit firmly in his teeth with this whole astronomy thing so we're trying to encourage it. One can only take so much Spongebob!

Info on the Kuiper Belt and the Oort Cloud:
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=KBOs

Info on Dwarf Planets  (and see the links just below the main text, labeled "Read More:", for further definitions)

And a Cal Tech page that provides info on many more Dwarf Planets:

There are lots of good astronomy sites out there with info about the solar system.  Look for trusted sources (because there're also a lot of poor sites out there).

It's off topic, so I'll stop there.

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