Topic: Total lunar eclipse

Europe will get to see the beginning of it, southeast Asia might catch the end of it. Those of us in the states though should have a good show, barring any nasty weather, which there's quite a bit of right now. Fortunately for me, south Texas looks nice and clear (and not that cold).

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/LEplot/LEplot2001/LE2010Dec21T.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2010_lunar_eclipse


And it's on the winter solstice no less

With just over an hour duration of total eclipse, I'm hoping I can figure out how to get a picture through my scope before it's over.

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so wanted to see this... complete cloud coverage though. This day sucks worse than Aquaman.

We're hoping the clouds lift by tomorrow nite but I'm not holding my breath.

The "show" earlier this month that peaked on the 13th was also rained out.

o/t
TP

How are you making out with that small hand-held keyboard whatever it was called?

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"It's not the pale moon that excites me.... It's the nearness of you."

the twiddler? steady 20 wpm... should get back to training, I guess.
It has it's nice points, but rewriting my brain is hard work... but then, this
keyboard's driving me crazy, the left shift ain't working.

Yes that's the gadget. 20 wpm I think that's pretty damn fast considering what it is. Anyway I was just wondering how you were making out with it.

I think an accordion player would have a distinct advantage. -_Q

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"It's not the pale moon that excites me.... It's the nearness of you."

Guess I must be in my own little cosmic time shift. I thought this show was tomorrow nite but neighbours and 'she who must be obeyed' have set me straight.

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"It's not the pale moon that excites me.... It's the nearness of you."

Clouds. What TP said.
:sad face:

Yea, I was all set up for it, had the scope and camera ready, and about 15-30 minutes in, some serious fog rolled in :/
Missed the rest of it.

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

I had a pretty good view from my home in New York. It was worth staying up and staying home from work today.

The BBC has some pretty good pictures of it.