Stargazing Are You Prepared for the Upcoming Lunar Eclipse?

[Gokul43201]

Set your alarms, get your cameras ready, clean the lenses on your scopes - it's loony time!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070827-lunar-eclispe.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/images/070827-lunar-eclipse_big.jpg

 

[George Jones]

I hope lots of folks here get a good view.

Unfortunately, I won't, as 3 a.m. PT is 7 a.m AT.

 

[Evo]

I saw a total eclipse of the moon a few years ago. Awesome. The moon turned a dark umber color.

 

[Hurkyl]

* rimshot *

 

[Gokul43201]

Civil twilight here was at 6:26 AM (ET) this morning. So I should get about a half hour of viewing time, if, as forecast, the clouds stay away.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I saw a total eclipse of the moon a few years ago. Awesome. The moon turned a dark umber color.

I saw a good one in Portland back in '97 or '98. The moon looked blood-red for a time.

 

[Gale]

we're headed out to go find a dark spot out of the city now. I wish I had a camera...

 

[Gokul43201]

That's it over here...I had a smoky, brown moon. Total eclipse began at about 0552(ET) with the moon at an elevation of about 20^o above the horizon.

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

I was prepared. I set out the lawn chair, can of brew and bag of chips and the smoked glass and just waited. But I didn't see a thing.

 

[zoobyshoe]

 

[George Jones]

smoked glass and just waited. But I didn't see a thing.

All the letters correct here?

 

[George Jones]

Very nice.

 

[Gokul43201]

All the letters correct here?

Naughty George! Nice pic, zoob. That's redder than it ever got, here in the midwest.

jimmy, how exactly do you mean "missed"?

 

[George Jones]

Naughty George! Nice pic, zoob. That's redder than it ever got, here in the midwest.

jimmy, how exactly do you mean "missed"?

Here's my interpretation, which may be completelly wrong.

Jimmy was making a joke about confusing lunar and solar eclipses. When you try and observe a lunar eclipse throught stuff you use for a solar eclipse, you don't see very much.

Since Jimmy's post was in jest, I decided to run with it.

 

[Gokul43201]

Since Jimmy's post was in jest, I decided to run with it.

So he wasn't trying on his new Oriental accent?

 

[George Jones]

So he wasn't trying on his new Oriental accent?

As usual, I was slow on the uptake. I now see the light with respect to your post (#13).

 

[Jimmy Snyder]

Yes, it was all in jest, I don't really smoke glass, or anyway, I don't inhale. The reason I didn't see anything is because I live on the oriental coast of the US which may explain the accent.

 

[BobG]

I had a very nice view from my back porch this morning.

Now, if I could just take a short nap at my desk... I got home around 11:30 last night, so that makes for a short sleep.