Total Lunar eclipse tonight

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

It's about 60... beautiful weather.

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.

[Cajungator26]

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.

Sorry...

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

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.)

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Sorry...

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

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.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by pgardn

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.

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[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by Avery_Smartman

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

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^^ Lesion..temporal lobe.

[Dunbar]

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.

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

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