How the lunar shadow looks like during the solar eclipse?

Lunar shadow seen from MIR TSE 1999

The area covered by umbra is the most spectacular of the whole solar eclipse phenomenon, therefore I would like to pay particular attention to this. Because I was watching the totality only once, I am going to use some supporting materials next to my own pictures. How the lunar shadow looks? We can consider it … Read more

Using Heywhatsthat.com to generate a multiple summit-perspective views in Google Earth – part 1

Heywhatsthat multi-summit panorama

Google Earth has been widely used in geography and GIS. Previously I showed you how to simulate a flood and total solar eclipse path in this tool. There are not only things, that I am going to show you over the forthcoming months. First of all, Google Earth is one of the programs, that I … Read more