I’m pretty sure that the ancient Greeks and Chinese were able to predict ecplipses, as well as medieval Muslims and Christians. Probably some other civilizations could as well – India, the Mayans, etc.

By the late 15th century Europeans had printed almanacs stating when eclipses would occur. There’s a story that Columbus, who got stranded on Jamaica during his 4th voyage, intimidated the Jamaican natives into providing him and his crew with food by predicting an eclipse of the moon based on an almanac that he was carrying.

TheBlackCat said:
> What is the time difference between the first and last picture?

I guess you missed the posted *LINK*

A number of shots were taken at 30s intervals (10s movie captures at 60fps, fixed on Saturn) which gave me the positional information I needed to build the composite you see here. The RGB image of Saturn was captured just before the occultation and the lunar limb just after (this is a three frame mosaic). The interval positions shown are separated by 90s in time. South is up in the image and the Moon would be moving towards the upper right.

Gary Ansorge said:
> Again, Relativity can make many of the calculations needed to explain what we see on a sub-atomic level just as accurately as quantum mechanics, it’s just incredibly akward and time consuming.

Uh, I don’t think they deal with the same aspects of physics. Got something I can read on that?

You’re right that were you to travel the 1/4-million miles to the Moon the percent change in your distance to Saturn would be too small to be important. But the telescope doesn’t simulate a translation through space. It magnifies everything in its field of view by the same factor. It increases their angular diameters. So, given that to the naked eye on Earth the Moon occupies an angle of about 1/2 degree, and Saturn occupies an angle so small that it appears as only a bright spot, if the telescope magnifies Saturn’s angular size enough to resolve into a disc with rings, then the Moon magnified by the same factor will assume a positively huge angle, as it does in the above photo.

A friend of mine once tried to warn her other friends about the infamous “Melissa” virus, only to have her warning blocked because it contained the word “virus” in it!

But apart from mis-identifying the BA (as well as potentially a lot of medical sites, as “occult” is also used in medical jargon), the religious arrogance of that ISP is staggering.

Oh! I just got your pun! (I’m a bit slow.:-))

Oh yes, that was it, did Christian really say that his old Irish ISP blocks _occult_ web
sites???

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml

DJBarney

BTW.. I used to live in Pete Lawrences home town…Selsey, many years ago.

Uh, I think that’s “selenology.” They’d have to wait until they got back to do “geology.”

Pedantically yours,

- Jack

While on the Moon the astronauts’ principle agenda was geology, for study of the Moon itself. That’s the one thing which they could do better on the lunar surface than anything else. The Moon isn’t significantly closer or farther from the other planets than is Earth, so Earthbound astronomers, with their large telescopes, were in a better position for planetary observations than the Apollo crews.

Again, Relativity can make many of the calculations needed to explain what we see on a sub-atomic level just as accurately as quantum mechanics, it’s just incredibly akward and time consuming.

So, we look for theories that are more “elegant” in their application, ie, beautiful in their simplicity, and easy to use,,,

Yeah, we’re definetly lazy,,,but, ya know, whatever works,,

Gary 7

So much for the moon hoaxies’ (hoaxers?) claim man hasn’t returned to moon for decades.