| Dunbar |
02-21-2008 09:53 AM |
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Originally Posted by pgardn
Damn its all cloudy.
Cant see anything.
I think its two or three year wait for the next.
Thanks for the pictures Gator
but there is nothing like the bino's
for looking at this.
I love these things.
Got the last solar eclipse videoed
and it is awesome. bout 75% of totality here.
The lunar eclipses often give some extraordinary colors
that I wont be able to see.:mad:
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pgardn, I've seen 4 total solar eclipses. The first one got me hooked. The most recent one I saw was in Antalya, Turkey in 2006. At the risk of sounding like an ass, IMO the difference between a 95% solar eclipse and a total solar eclipse is comparable to the difference between a pat on the back and an orgasm. The sky becomes so beautiful, alien and wonderful you can't believe it. And almost all of that beauty materializes rather quickly from the 99% point onward.
Here's a map of where total solar eclipses will occur in the next 27 years:
http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse/future.html The next visible from the US is in 2017. (the eclipse is only total within a 70-mile wide band along the path)
I've always taken a snobbish view of lunar eclipses. But last night's was the best I've seen, maybe because I first looked when there was just a crescent of sunlight still lighting the right side of the moon.
--Dunbar |
