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On Aug. 28, skywatchers across much of North America can watch as the Moon crosses into the Earth’s shadow and will undergo its second total eclipse in 2007.

West Coast viewers will get the best show.

Lunar eclipses occur when Earth gets between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow. The view is different from each location on the planet. Along the West Coast of Canada and the United States and in Alaska, the entire eclipse will be visible from start to finish before moonset in the early morning hours of that Tuesday. Hawaiians will see totality – when the moon is completely in Earth’s shadow – high in their sky around midnight.

In eastern Asia and Australia, the event will occur on the same date but in the evening, since for this part of the world it will coincide with moonrise.

What will happen

The Moon will track across the southern portion of the Earth’s shadow, and will be completely immersed for one-hour and 30 minutes, making this a much-longer than normal totality.

Because some of the sunlight that strikes our Earth is diffused and scattered by our atmosphere, its shadow is not completely dark; enough of this light reaches the Moon to give it an eerie coppery glow even when it’s totally eclipsed. It is anticipated that during the upcoming total eclipse the Moon will glow brightest across its lower portion, while its upper part (closest to the center of the shadow) will appear a deep shade of brown or gray.
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JaDarkX v0.1

JaDarkX is a graphic game engine that by use of pure JAVA3D, with use of scene graph that easy to use and build a game with any genre of game.

JaDarkX graphic game engine specification are :
- any VGA with 3D support min. 32 MB
- scene manager with simple script
- cross platform (windows and linux OS are tested)
- Interactive UI
- Simple Animation ( Rotation, Scale dan Posotion temporary we just use two position only)
- Simple Command (please /help for command detail)
- Simple Terrain With Simple Collation
- Multi Texture Support (Depend on VGA Specs) JPG,JPEG,GIF,PNG

scene manager script example:

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