Cool, Solar Eclipse at Night!

Nope, I didn't believe it either.!
But there was the headline, right on cnn.netscape's newspage..



Very oxymoronic..
But I thought I would give it a read...Maybe it's not impossible.
So I clicked on the link..and found this, the real story:



AH!!!
That explains it!..Somehow, in order to have a solar eclipse at night. You need to involve the moon of some other Planet! Yet, I still don't understand how that works..
Please, CmdrKeen, or another astronomy expert...please diagram out the proper alignments needed for this RARE occurence..I'm all eyes!!


Here is a pic of that other moon, a little bigger:
anyolemoon

Anyone care to name that moon!?


Space out...

It must've been local. Obviously on the other side of the planet it would be a solar eclipse at daytime.

It was an article from an American media outlet.
About an eclipse across the southern half of that same America.

I thought it was humorous, in a pathetic sort of way..
Bad headline, any old mugshot of a moon, obviously a heavily researched
article!

Originally posted by Xar Ke Zeth
It must've been local. Obviously on the other side of the planet it would be a solar eclipse at daytime.

Yep.
Solar eclipse doesn't require midday, only that observer, moon and sun are in same LOS.
Actually it could be said that there's solar eclipse continuously... shadow of moon just doesn't hit earth so often.

Wow!

I'll remember, next time to be careful about expressing my sense of humor,
in the science forms...LOL

Lol, I didn't really pay much attention to bottom of your first post.

You could even say night-time is a terrestrial eclipse, with the Earth blocking the light for the people on the other side.

Next one is on May 20, 2012

Could that be the big 2012 day we all been hearing of?

If the world ends on may 20 2012 i will give everyone on this site 20 dollars.

Originally posted by Lanotom
Next one is on May 20, 2012

If someone wants to know where to travel here's map made with Skymap Pro 10:

Eclipse map