Yay, eclipse tonight. Going to be a total eclipse. Won't be another one until 2010. Instead of just getting dark the moon will turn completely red so it should be cool looking. At the end of this post there are times for the eclipse. The total eclipse will be the best time to look at the moon. btw, it's not like a solar eclipse in that in will not hurt your eyes to look at it for long periods.
I'm at work but I'm going outside for 5-10 minutes around total eclipse time.
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
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Though didn't we have one March last year?
Let me be the one you call
If you jump i'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn YOU'RE NOT ALONE
" my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trials and suffering. When you see only one set of footprints it was then that I carried you" you were carried out of are lifes into the next and when its my time to leave this life I know i will be carried into the next life with you.
I wish i had my world complete again.
'Can we protend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars, i could really use a wish right now' BoB
I'll probably go outside at some point. It's supposed to be totally eclipsed for like 51 minutes or something, and it'll be in the late evening here, so no reason I wouldn't be able to go outside... And it's not even very cloudy atm, which is unusual where I live :)
We did have one not to long ago. And that one was late at night my time. I think we went outside at like 3 in the morning or something ridiculous. Or maybe 3 am was the meteor shower, but the lunar eclipse was pretty late at any rate. And I hadn't actually looked up the time myself, I just took my friends' word for it about when we should go out, which turned out to be when it started rather than when it reached totality, so we were outside for a really long time.
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Thanks Shakes - here's some real pics I snagged out back. They aren't focused too well because autofocus wasn't too easy to do and it was too cold for manuel lol:
I tried to take some, but since I don't have a tripod it didn't work so well
Plus I couldn't be bothered to walk to someplace that didn't have trees in the way...
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Thanks - I did use a tripod. It was way cold though. I just ran across below bit explaining why moon is read. I had read about it before but this painted a different picture:
"Red Light in the Dark"
"The umbra is the part of Earth’s shadow where the Sun is blocked completely. So why does the eclipsed Moon glow deep orange or red, rather than being blacked out?
The red light you'll see on the Moon comes from all the sunrises and sunsets that are occurring around Earth at the time. Our atmosphere scatters and refracts (bends) the sunlight that grazes the rim of our globe, sending some of it into Earth’s shadow.
If you were an astronaut standing on the Moon, the situation would be obvious. You would see the Sun covered up by a dark Earth that was ringed all around with a thin, brilliant band of sunset- and sunrise-colored light.
Watch the Moon carefully for other colors during totality, especially through binoculars or a telescope. Sometimes delicate blues, greens, and purples come and go. Time-lapse photography may show “flying shadows” crossing the Moon’s face during totality. These result from different features along Earth’s sunrise-sunset ring fading and brightening as the Sun shifts position behind Earth.
For this eclipse the Moon will be in the midst of some fine celestial scenery, like a big cameo stone with shiny little gems on the sides. The Moon will form a changing triangle with bright Saturn and the slightly dimmer star Regulus. (Their exact arrangement will depend on the time and where you're looking from.) The whole scene will just fit in the field of view of most binoculars."
Arrgh. I was going to wait for it (it was supposed to be between 9-9:45pm here), but my car broke down just at about nine, so I was freaking out about being stuck in the dark in a weird neighborhood and forgot to watch for it. DAMN! Bet it was cool though.
