Enough of the Moon already?

The Moon, seen from Ireland in 2021.

With the solar eclipse in the United States, and Ireland and the UK getting a partial eclipse, you’re probably sick of Moon coverage, but I would just like to point you to a couple of podcasts you’ll enjoy if you want more.

  1. Tom Hanks talking about the Moon walkers on The Rest is History podcast. Who doesn’t love listening to Tom Hanks?
  2. The Moon itself from Radiolab is a fairly basic look at the Moon, but gets a lot more interesting later on.

Both shows are great, but if you’re only going to listen to one, listen to The Rest is History, sorry Radiolab. But you should listen to both!

If you have even more time to spare, you should listen to the Omega Tau podcast episodes on the Apollo missions I listed in this blog post about Apollo. Fascinating listening. So many technical details.

As expected, the sky outside was a grey blanket on the island of Ireland. I hope someone saw something.

Eclipse 2017 in Ireland

A tiny portion of the August 21st solar eclipse will be visible from Ireland as seen in this NASA web app that shows you the track of the Moon’s shadow across the Earth.

It’ll probably be cloudy anyway but don’t look unless you have special glasses. I doubt most people will notice anything, it might get slightly dimmer around 8pm local time for a few minutes. Wait for the photos from the US to show up on social media. 🙂