Topic: Total Lunar Eclipse (Page 1 of 1)

The last total lunar eclipse in North America for almost three years is tomorrow night!

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21.html

Unfortunately, it looks like it'll be raining in this area, so I'll miss my chance once again to photograph a complete cycle.

Feh.

Who picked up that date and time ? Here, in Oslo, it's gonna span from ~2am till ~6pm on Thursday night. Don't the people who pick the dates have a job ?

Thanks for the info Wes. Will keep an eye open.

Sorry, poi, Norway lost the bid this year.

(Gee, I hope Oslo is in Norway, otherwise I'm going to have start laying off the Sailor Jerry and get an atlas ...)



(Edited by Wes on 02-20-2008 08:40)

No eclipse visible in Korea. Yay.

No biggie, though. I haven't seen an eclipse since I got here. Something always goes wrong, usually the weather.

It would be nifty if someone could capture this and I could experience it vicariously...


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I was looking every half hour last night for the eclipse. All excited and telling everyone about it. Clear skies and everything. Then I realized that last night was the 19th.

noob

:sigh:

Hopefully tonight - on the 20th.

We've had clear skies the last few nites.... but of course for the big show the clouds roll in. Personally I believe it's all part of the big conspiracy.... you know... the cia...with their weather experiments...generating clouds so we can't see what they're really up to ..up there with the ET's. ~nudge nudge~-_Q

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(Edited by NoJive on 02-20-2008 12:43)

Great stuff, thanks Wes, I would have forgotten this if not for your timely reminder.
The Weather here has been really cold for the past few days, well an English "really" cold. Daytime about 32F and at night -4F to -6F. Brrrrr. Which means we have had wonderfully clear skies with Orion straddling the night sky for most of the night. To-night we have clouds and rain forecast. I think you're right NoJive
On a slightly different though cosmically related matter I have been playing around in Photoshop colourising those wonderful Hubble images of galaxies using the FITS Liberator. See FITS Liberator - Plug-in For Photoshop I love looking at Hubble's Images, the larger the better. I can get lost for hours pouring over them


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Tao: As people say in Norway: There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing.

Wes: yes, Oslo is in Norway. There was in hint in the From field of my profile box.

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poi said:

As people say in Norway: There is no bad weather. Only bad clothing

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Nice one I'll have to remember that.

The females here in Liverpool that like to go out of an evening seem impervious to the changing seasons. It's almost a tragicomedy watching them teeter around from bar to bar in high heels short skirts and bare midriffs in the middle of a winter night.

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Tao said:
The females here in Liverpool that like to go out of an evening seem impervious to the changing seasons. It's almost a tragicomedy watching them teeter around from bar to bar in high heels short skirts and bare midriffs in the middle of a winter night.

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Ahh yes. It's a well observed fact that the Castor Liverpoolensis much like all the Castoridae family when in heat do not feel cold.

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Arthurio said:

Ahh yes. It's a well observed fact that the Castor Liverpoolensis much like all the Castoridae family when in heat do not feel cold.

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Heh, I'm with you on that but I don't think I would be so bold as to say that to their faces, out loud, on a dark winters night, in the Pool of Life.

Well, total cloud cover thwarted my attempts, as I expected.

But I can offer this shot I took in 2004, when I was at least afforded the occasional cloud break.



(Edited by Wes on 02-24-2008 04:37)

Lunar Eclipse

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Wes: I'm getting a 404 on that photo link.

I watched it from here in Michigan. My dad got pictures of it. I'll ask him about them when I get a chance and see if I can post them.

Zava, greets from the Lansing area!

It started shortly after 9:00pm. We went outside every few to check on it. Around 10 it started to tint and fully wane. Absolutely beautiful.

One of the girls that I work with was rather upset because a previous lunar eclipse took 6 hours and this last one was so short. She was all like, "Man! Last one took six stinking hours to watch! We were out all night watching it! Man!"

The next night, one of the guys claimed to have made the moon disappear because it wasn't viewable at our angle and because of the eclipse. Just last night he mentioned that the moon was back. I claimed it was back because my daughters and I went out and did a Bring the Moon Back dance in war paint and stuff. Then we had a chat about Christopher Columbus and his hoax on the Central Americans (or whomever it was he duped).

No pictures from me, but it's all good.

Ah, Jamacians. Food and mistreatment.

I can't help but wonder if Christopher was shitting his pants or if he was confident that his gambit would work.

Thanks for the link GN loved the images.
I'm getting a 404 tooo Wes.
Glad you managed to see it WarJ, great story too, thanks
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I claimed it was back because my daughters and I went out and did a Bring the Moon Back dance in war paint and stuff. Then we had a chat about Christopher Columbus and his hoax on the Central Americans (or whomever it was he duped).

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I'm wondering if you mean, or have heard of, this story Tecumseh's Solar Eclipse
Actually, having just made that link I realised that the story is about a solar eclipse not lunar but it's still an interesting read.

Photo! Photo! My CPU for a photo!

Turns out my dad didn't take any pictures of it, but other family members did. I don't know how good they are, but I will see.

WJ, I'm in Washington Township (near Romeo).

Ah, hell. I had it pointing to my damn temporary dev site.

It's fixed now. And here it is again for the lazy:

Moon Shot

Wow, great shot, Wes!

That's a awesome picture Wes!

None of my family took any pictures worth posting.

Nice one Wes, I remember the occasion.

Very nice photo, Wes. I've never had the chance to see one for real, but one day, maybe...

Timelapse onset to totality: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdBQaDkldGA

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Here is a really nice one from flickr: Photo

Awesome find there, Gilbert! I love the inclusion of Taipei 101 in the photo.

Thanks for the links liorean and Gilbert, a feast for the eyes.


Those who look for monsters should look to it that
they do not become monsters. For when you gaze
long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.