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Evening Planet Parade and Total Lunar Eclipse!Saturday, February 28 | 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Explorit Science Center | 3141 5th Street, Davis
by Vinita Domier | [email protected]
NASA Solar System Ambassador
Everyone is invited to a regular Davis Astronomy Club evening meeting on Saturday, February 28, starting at 6pm. The meeting is free, open to all ages, and will be held at the Explorit Science Center (3141 5th Street) and the Mace Ranch Park parking lot in Davis.
On Saturday, February 28, we will have an indoor presentation about the upcoming total lunar eclipse, followed by a star party outdoors to look at the wonders of the winter night sky. Planets Mercury, Venus, and Saturn will be visible low in the western sky around sunset. Planet Jupiter, and its biggest moons, will be visible overhead, and the nearly full-phase Earth’s Moon will be visible in the eastern sky.
Lunar eclipses occur when the Sun, the Earth, and the full-phase Moon, in that order, line up in space. A part or the entire Moon, now in the Earth’s shadow, is obscured as it is cut off from the direct light from the Sun. Solar eclipses occur when the Sun, the new-phase Moon, and the Earth, in that order, line up in space. The shadow of the Moon then falls on a region of the Earth, obscuring part or all of Sun.
Eclipses do not occur at every new and full Moon because the Moon does not orbit the Earth in the same plane as the Earth orbits the Sun. There are two periods, about six months apart, when these three solar system bodies - the Sun, Earth, and Moon - can align to produce the celestial phenomena of lunar and solar eclipses.
In the predawn hours on Tuesday, March 3, viewers in North America can witness the spectacle of a total lunar eclipse. The partial lunar eclipse will begin at 1:50am, totality will be between 3:04am and 4:02am, and the eclipse will end at 5:15am. Totality, when the full Moon is entirely in the Earth’s dark shadow, will last for 58 minutes.
For more information about this event, please contact Vinita Domier at [email protected].
For more information about the Davis Astronomy Club, please visit:
https://www.explorit.org/astronomy-club
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3141 5th St (Explorit Science Center), Davis, CA, United States, California 95618
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