Total Lunar eclipse tonight
 

Nice clear night on the Sand Flats...peak time will be around 10pm E.S.T.
last one until 2010...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/.../lunar_eclipse




.....wonder if Avery will chime in on this event?

Ask Hossy to let you use his hand shadow box.

You don't need protective eye wear for this eclipse.....but, you may freeze your butt off watching it. :D

Too cloudy here to see. I'll have to wait until 2010.:mad:

:rolleyes:

:)

Can you see the eclipse from the holler?????

Just got cloudy here too the last 15 mins.....oh well! :p

Because I love you guys...

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(Bad pic, but my camera sucks - sorry.)

I saw the last lunar eclipse
it was kinda cool
and nearly impossible to photograph
especially with my camera

your pic isn't as bad as mine were

thanks

This one makes it look like there are two moons, LOL...

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Not bad.....for in the dark :o

bet it's a lot warmer where you are.

It's about 60... beautiful weather. :cool:

Currently 8 degrees here, -1 with the wind chill :eek:

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:

Sorry... :(

Wish I had a nicer camera. I hate this stupid Kodak. :mad:

How did you video the solar eclipse? Isn't that supposed to kill your eyes or something like that? (I don't know much about them.)

I use a pinhole box and followed the progress. So I had the camera pointed at a piece of white paper. It showed the perfect outline of the sun and the little black bite that was taken out of a bright cookie. You could also see some wispy clouds as they passed by the sun. It was really neat.

You can get all these filters to video it but it was too expensive. And it does burn your retina if you dont have the right type of filters over your eyes. And even then, it does not look as good so I just used the pinhole.

Awesome... I would never have guessed you could do that. :cool:

:rolleyes:

^^^ Wishes he could figure out who he is.

^^ Lesion..temporal lobe.

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

Holy Mother of God.





























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