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2009 has been declared the International Year of Astronomy.
Serendipidously, there will be an anullar eclipse of the sun passing over Indonesia on January 26, Australia day.
http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0132009/
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I actually got up for this at 5.30 A.M. local time and saw a small part of this.
The moon "shines" because it reflects light from the sun. Basically a lunar eclipse is when the earth gets between the light from the sun and the moon.
Check out this blog.
Sydney Observatory
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2008's only Lunar eclipse visible from Australia will occur on the morning of Sunday 17th August (in all Australian Time Zones). Unfortunately the time of the eclipse means that only Western Australian residents will see the majority of the eclipse - before morning twilight destroys the show!
Details here ==> http://www.paulfloyd.id.au/
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 Does the moon look the same all over the world ? Is is a different colour, does it follow the same path ?
This simple project asks folks all over the world to take a digital photograph of the full moon, around August 16th, 2008 at approx 8.00 P.M. so students in his Science class can compare them.
Participants are asked to estimate where on the horizon the moon is and its elevation. The resultant image can be emailed to mweber_at_woodvale.wa.edu.au then it can be loaded onto this site for display.
Thanks to everyone who helps out.
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