
MORE: Supermoon seen from around the world This will mark the first lunar eclipse of the decade. Wyatt said the Venus event won’t be seen again for 115 years and viewing it will require projecting an image of the sun with a telescope. A total lunar eclipse, known as the 'super blood wolf moon,' rises over San Francisco, Jan. Wyatt said the solar eclipse will be followed by an early morning lunar eclipse on June 4 and an ultra-rare event the next day in which Venus casts its shadow as a small disc on the surface of the sun. After the moon sets on Wednesday morning, Bay Area residents will have to wait about a year to see the next total lunar eclipse on May 16, 2022, Burress said. The next partial eclipse won’t be visible here until 2014, and then next annular eclipse won’t be seen until 2017. The shadow begins creeping across the surface of the sun at 5:16 p.m. Wyatt said the academy in Golden Gate Park will set up a viewing area with telescopes and solar glasses, along with assisting the National Parks Service with another viewing area at Land’s End. Today marks the first solar eclipse visible in North America for “quite some time” according to Ryan Wyatt, director of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences. The cloud cover didn't coperate with our Moon's show so I ran off to good ol' reliable Potrero to see the magnificence of the total lunar eclipse.
And of course, no one should stare directly at the eclipse without a solar-filtered device or by punching a pinhole in a piece of paper and projecting the light on to another sheet while facing away from the sun. If youre using the maven-shade-plugin, you need to strip them out because you are intentionally changing the jar:Prior to the eclipse, we will visit several of the places for which China has always been. Join us on a journey to visit three of China’s most important cultural sitesBeijing, Xi’an & Hangzhoubefore seeing the eclipse, Jat the mouth of the Qiantang River near the city of Hangzhou. People wanting to witness the annular eclipse should find an open northwest horizon unblocked by trees or buildings. the Total Solar Eclipse of July 22, 2009. No place on Earth will witness a total eclipse, although the West Coast will see the majority of the sun covered - a rarely visible event happening over many parts of western and central North America. Sunday evening’s solar eclipse will have up to 84 percent of the sun blocked over San Francisco, with only a crescent of light peering around the shadow of the moon during the event’s apex at 6:33 p.m.īecause of the evening eclipse time, many people might not even notice a difference unless they look up.
