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The eclipse story is just a cover...
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In the news: Drool has the Staff!!!
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Dammit! Exactly the times of Match of the Day tonight! But the sky IS clear so a little bit of football may have to be sacrificed! Has anyone told Nerdanel?Astronomers are confident that even with the naked eye stargazers will be treated to dramatic views of the eclipse, which will be at its height from 10.24pm to 11.58pm.
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Yeah, the night is clear and the moon ist very bright - and very full.Stonemaybe wrote:Dammit! Exactly the times of Match of the Day tonight! But the sky IS clear so a little bit of football may have to be sacrificed! Has anyone told Nerdanel?Astronomers are confident that even with the naked eye stargazers will be treated to dramatic views of the eclipse, which will be at its height from 10.24pm to 11.58pm.
I thought this should have started yet? (10:32pm).But okay, perhaps the times above are Greenwich time?
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I was out watching the eclipse. It was a nice crisp weather, not too cold, and the sky was almost completely covered by high, thin cloud. I didn't manage to see the moon in the entire time, but I saw the clouds turn from reddish to gray, which would have been the ending of the complete phase.
I've seen a total lunar eclipse once many years ago. It was a very memorably experience. By the way, the reference to moon becoming blood in the Revelations by the way is obviously a reference to a total eclipse, and SRD would have been inspired by the Revelations in the Bible when he came up with the idea of Drool turning the moon red. So the event this night is a sort of grandfather to LFB.
I've seen a total lunar eclipse once many years ago. It was a very memorably experience. By the way, the reference to moon becoming blood in the Revelations by the way is obviously a reference to a total eclipse, and SRD would have been inspired by the Revelations in the Bible when he came up with the idea of Drool turning the moon red. So the event this night is a sort of grandfather to LFB.
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On Saturday night I was on the way from one pub to another with a friend.
A crazy looking old man on a bike (not wearing an ochre robe, unfortunately!) rides up to me and yells, "Look at the sky! Do you see it?"
So I look up and in the crystal clear night sky see the start of the eclipse.
"Finally," the man said, "Someone actually looked up. Everyone else just thought I was mad!"
Wonder where they got that idea?
Went up onto an exposed hill away from the city lights to find about 100 others up there, complete with howling dogs!
It was pretty amazing when it went red. For once the weather was perfect too.
An astronomer friend of mine said they're surprisingly common, we just don't look!
I saw the 1999 solar eclipse, and together with this one I can verify that it made me feel rather odd (more than usual
). I can only imagine what people thousands of years ago must have thought was happening, before we had a "rational" explanation for it.
A crazy looking old man on a bike (not wearing an ochre robe, unfortunately!) rides up to me and yells, "Look at the sky! Do you see it?"
So I look up and in the crystal clear night sky see the start of the eclipse.
"Finally," the man said, "Someone actually looked up. Everyone else just thought I was mad!"
Wonder where they got that idea?
Went up onto an exposed hill away from the city lights to find about 100 others up there, complete with howling dogs!
It was pretty amazing when it went red. For once the weather was perfect too.
An astronomer friend of mine said they're surprisingly common, we just don't look!
I saw the 1999 solar eclipse, and together with this one I can verify that it made me feel rather odd (more than usual
). I can only imagine what people thousands of years ago must have thought was happening, before we had a "rational" explanation for it.
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Well I would not call it a droolmoon...more like a heavenly egg yolk. We're not getting the eclipse so must be content over a lesser display of a bright orange full moon with a halo.
Was doing my sauvakävely toward home and stopped to admire it; we're having some heavy winds right now so the clouds obscured it almost instantly and I didn't have my camera at hand while it plunged once into full view. So when I got home I fetched the point-and-shoot picture apparatus and jogged off to the nearby field to take a few shots. It's not good for astronomic imagery at all, plus the gusts just made the entire photoing unsteady. Perhaps lurch and his SLR will appear here later.
I'm so jealous of the Brits and Irish for having these neolithic temples with lunar astronomic features! Would be just perfect to observe such a moon by Knowth.
Halo here.
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Was doing my sauvakävely toward home and stopped to admire it; we're having some heavy winds right now so the clouds obscured it almost instantly and I didn't have my camera at hand while it plunged once into full view. So when I got home I fetched the point-and-shoot picture apparatus and jogged off to the nearby field to take a few shots. It's not good for astronomic imagery at all, plus the gusts just made the entire photoing unsteady. Perhaps lurch and his SLR will appear here later.
I'm so jealous of the Brits and Irish for having these neolithic temples with lunar astronomic features! Would be just perfect to observe such a moon by Knowth.
Halo here.
Möh kuu.
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Nice shots, Frosty!
I usually have trouble getting the moon in focus. Since the light is always low, I almost need a tripod to keep my hands steady enough for a decent shot.
I usually have trouble getting the moon in focus. Since the light is always low, I almost need a tripod to keep my hands steady enough for a decent shot.
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