3D-Visualization of the Total Solar Eclipse on July 11, 2010 in Patagonia at sunset using a Google Sketchup model for the lunar umbra in Google Earth. The umbra is modeled as a glass tube, colored gray on the sunward side from the shadow center and blue in the opposite direction.
Onset of totality at the Mirador Cuesta de Miguez on Ruta 40 near El Calafate.
Ground views are 20 seconds apart.
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Astronomy for Kids
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Take a virtual field trip with MEET ME AT THE CORNER, (www.meetmeatthecorner.org) Palomar Observatory for National Astronomy Day.
Join our young host as he learns about the Observatory and the Hubble Telescope.
This site offers links to fun websites including StarChild, NASA for Kids, Astronomy for kids and a link to The Galileoscope™ a high-quality, low-cost telescope kit developed for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 by a team of leading astronomers, optical engineers, and science educators. No matter where you live, with this easy-to-assemble, 50-mm (2-inch) diameter, 25- to 50-power achromatic refractor, you can see the celestial wonders that Galileo Galilei first glimpsed 400 years ago and that still delight stargazers today. These include lunar craters and mountains, four moons circling Jupiter, the phases of Venus, Saturn's rings, and countless stars invisible to the unaided eye.
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