In the news: Drool has the Staff!!!
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:42 am
Will we see that in the states?
If, so what day? I got the time, but nothing else.
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In the news: Drool has the Staff!!!
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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:51 am
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:30 pm
It's today (times are GMT) and it will be visible from some parts of the eastern US and Canada.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:37 pm
And tonight it will be a clear night, at least here in eastern France 
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 6:38 pm
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:24 pm
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?
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 9:40 pm
they are i think!
just checked outside and there's a bite out of the bottom of the moon - best i've ever seen!
just checked outside and there's a bite out of the bottom of the moon - best i've ever seen!
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:19 pm
Moon's past half gone at the minute. Clear view out of our front window.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:49 pm
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.
Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 11:12 pm
I am now a happy man!
Thank you rusmeister you are a STAR!
Thank you rusmeister you are a STAR!
Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:21 pm
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.Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 9:06 am
Drool will be using the Staff once again, On Wednesday October 8, 2014. Yet another blood-red moon.
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:09 pm
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.
Möh kuu.
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 3:35 am
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.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 3:42 pm
I'm still waiting for Elena to get the Staff.
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2014 11:13 pm
We'll be in for a long winter, then!dlbpharmd wrote:I'm still waiting for Elena to get the Staff.
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:01 am
And here's the Cavewight boy band, New Kids On The Rock!
We got the right Staff, baby
With Drool Rockworm we sing this song
We got the right Staff, baby
Now we're gonna make the Moon look wrong.
We got the right Staff, baby
With Drool Rockworm we sing this song
We got the right Staff, baby
Now we're gonna make the Moon look wrong.