Sentences with phrase «other during an eclipse»

Stars behind the sun would appear in different positions with respect to each other during an eclipse than they would on an ordinary night when the sun is nowhere in sight.

Not exact matches

Over the years, CAISO and other electricity operators have been trying to resolve the obvious limitations the industry faces during major events like eclipses.

Although LRO would be forced to shut down its instruments for this eclipse, Petro said other lunar eclipses are a great opportunity for the mission to study how the lunar surface cools during these events, giving insight into the materials making up the surface.

As a first step, during the eclipse on August 21, Samra and others will observe the corona in wavelengths of infrared light between 1 and 4 micrometers.

Mangel, who visited Tennessee for the Aug. 21 eclipse, said he and others experienced an unusual clarity of vision during the minutes when the moon shut out the sun's rays.

In astronomy, a corona is the luminous plasma «atmosphere» of the Sun or other celestial body, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse, but also observable in a coronagraph.

In an Earth - like atmosphere, the light of the other star would be appreciably scattered, causing the sky to be perceptibly blue though darker than during daytime, like during twilight or total solar eclipse.

During the 2014 event in Las Vegas, three trends eclipsed all others that had the entire floor buzzing with anticipation.

Living the dream on card rewards Those who don't know us very well may think we are living the high life, but the truth is that our $ 250 hotel room near the line of totality during the eclipse was booked for 3,000 Starwood Preferred Guest points; our flight to Wyoming was 100 percent free on a private plane thanks to a crazy JetSmarter promotion for those who could prove they had a million miles; our resort complete with water slides and a lazy river in San Antonio was booked using an annual credit card award night when the room normally costs $ 300 - plus per night; our amazing room at the Park Hyatt New York was booked using 30,000 Hyatt points per night when the selling price was almost $ 1,000 per night; and most of our other flights were booked via a collection of airline miles and credit card points that were primarily earned by leveraging our everyday spending for major rewards.

The Lacandón, on the other hand, thought that during an eclipse the Earth would split and that jaguars would emerge «and eat most of the people.»

During the two decades that followed, however, Abstract Expressionism was eclipsed by Pop art and other movements, and Mitchell's work was less frequently exhibited.

During storms, the Flex and Eclipse outperformed just about every other antenna that I tested.

As the dominant force in the world of Android phones, Samsung has eclipsed all competitors at this year's Mobile World Congress to the point that we don't expect major phone announcements to take place during the show (except perhaps for Sony), with LG, Huawei, Motorola, HTC and others waiting for later.