Lunar Eclipse in Stellarrium!

[mikerr]

In Stellarium, click on the "Time & and Date Setting" in the side bar menue. Then change the date to 2011-12-11. Change the time to 1-7-00. Now zoom the FOV to about 14 and you will be able to watch the eclipse come and go by altering the minutes forward or back.

Now I don't care if it clouds over next month!! :P

Michael

[Keltik]

Wow, thanks Mike, I never even thought to try that....leads me to ponder: if you change your location in Stellarium to somewhere along the path of totality of the next solar eclipse, would it display....? Must try tonight when I have a minute.

[mikerr]

Now don't go running amuk there Trevor! We may be dabbling in things best left alone:eyepop::D.

Michael

[Keltik]

heyyyy....if we fast forward it, will we get to the bit where the Sun goes red giant...?;)

[SkySearcher]

Maybe we can go to 2036 and see if Apophis ends the world.

[mithrandir]

I did that for here (Sydney) and a few places around Cairns and Cooktown. Here gets most of the eclipse, but not enough.

[Barrykgerdes]

Yes it will display exactly as it will or has happened as viewed from that site. In fact there are a number of scripts around displaying astronomical phenomena that do just that.

Barry

[Barrykgerdes]

That woud be interesting. If you can find a rogue asteroid on a collision path with Earth or another solar body. It would be interesting to show it happening on Stellarium.

Must go back a few years and move to Jupiter and watch Shoemaker-Levy coming in.

Barry

[steve000]

I often do this for upcomming events, it helps me get my head around time zones and dates..

ya know when an american site says its june 6 but you think its an aussie site, you get all ready for june 6 then check stellarium and relise its jun 7 instead!.

its good.

Venus transit is there as well as other events like solar eclipse and the smiley face of 2008

or 21/12/2020 where jupiter and saturn are around 1/10th of a degree away from each other.

[naskies]

The simulation of Jupiter's rotation (specifically, the Great Red Spot) is completely wrong for me in Stellarium - anyone else experience this? The location of the moons and everything else are spot on, though.



Wow... I'm definitely looking forward to that!

[mithrandir]

CdC lets you specify the longitude of the GRS by getting the data from Jupos.

Any similar plans Barry?