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Old 15-09-2008, 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by matt View Post
Will be too low to see here in Bris. Don't know how well you'll see it where you are?
Hi Matt,

Yep, the moon and Antares will have set by graze time as viewed from Brisbane. Moonset at graze time is somewhere near Cunanulla.

At packsaddle (north of BH) the pair will be at 8 degrees altitude. At Port Pirie observers will have another 2 degrees altitude or so.

Below is a map of the complete path of the moon's shadow by the light of Antares as it sweeps over the earth. The red dotted line represents the event in daylight, the blue line represents the event in twilight and the white line represents the event at night.

Also attached is a text file. If you download that file and change the file type from .txt to .kml, you can load the file from within Google Earth.
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