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Total Lunar Eclipse

Postby The Pious Flea » 20 Feb 2008, 15:21

It starts about 25 minutes from now, at 6:45 EST PM.

Heads up to everyone on the East Coast.
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Postby Kieran » 20 Feb 2008, 15:46

I'm on the wrong east coast :(
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Postby kkief02 » 20 Feb 2008, 15:54

On PST it starts around 7:15. 8)
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Postby The Pious Flea » 20 Feb 2008, 18:48

It's so beautiful... no words... they should have sent a poet...
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Postby CyberTractor » 20 Feb 2008, 18:51

School for the win. We have a 32 inch lens telescope. Looked awesome.
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Postby jtaylor » 20 Feb 2008, 19:10

18x zoom lens is nice, no tripod: not so much.
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Postby wilson_x1999 » 20 Feb 2008, 19:13

I'm watching it from my window, and looks awesome.
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Postby The Pious Flea » 20 Feb 2008, 19:17

It's the color of Earth's sunsets and sunrises, reflected back at us.
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Postby JesterJ. » 20 Feb 2008, 19:32

Been going down to look at it periodically, it's really beautiful.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 20 Feb 2008, 21:36

I was out on the roof of the physics and astronomy building for the whole of totality.
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Postby NachoManLance » 20 Feb 2008, 21:41

I saw it while running D: I fail for having no good place to view it by means of telescopes.
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Postby Kara » 20 Feb 2008, 22:23

Went up to Clover Point (Ocean near my house.) and watched it. Preeetty dope. =D
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Postby Graham » 20 Feb 2008, 23:07

Where's Sable with some photos when you need him?


Then again, when DON'T we need his photos?
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Postby Cake » 20 Feb 2008, 23:29

I still have that picture of the bridge that he took (and signed) in my home. Speaking of which, Sable, lotsa people that come over really like it. And speaking of which, where is that guy? Haven't seen him around.
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Postby Allen! » 20 Feb 2008, 23:51

I came, I saw, and I came again in her mouth.

I guess I shoulda said something, a warning, maybe.


She seemed pretty mad that I didn't tell her there was an eclipse going on.
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Postby AlexanderDitto » 21 Feb 2008, 05:38

It was overcast here.
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Postby emma » 21 Feb 2008, 06:34

I was having a party and we went outside about 5 minutes after the peak. It was nice, but it was cold so I went back inside.
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Postby Mouse » 21 Feb 2008, 07:15

I was at church. Me and my friend, Nick, stood and watched it. It was really lovely.
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Postby blackdragontaz » 21 Feb 2008, 09:10

I saw a few pieces, quarter in, quarter to total, nearly total, then went to bed. If not for cold weather (somewhere in the neighbothood of 10 degrees) and needing to get up for work at 5am, I'd've sat for the whole thing. Lookin forward to some pics that may have been taken.
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Postby empath » 21 Feb 2008, 11:15

I'm still kicking myself for not finding out about it until this morning. :(

What's worse is it was PERFECTLY clear last night around the time, and I know this because I was out maybe ten or twenty minutes before it was supposed to happen, running an errand, and still didn't even think to look at the moon. :(

grrrrr....

How long for the next one that'll be visible from the Canadian East Coast? :(
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Postby concupiscentcrustacean » 21 Feb 2008, 11:41

empath wrote:
How long for the next one that'll be visible from the Canadian East Coast? :(


there isn't supposed to be another totality until 2010 or something like that
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Postby blackdragontaz » 21 Feb 2008, 12:14

concupiscentcrustacean wrote:
empath wrote:
How long for the next one that'll be visible from the Canadian East Coast? :(


there isn't supposed to be another totality until 2010 or something like that


Yep, though I haven't heard when in 2010. Hopefully it's in the summer time so I can lay outside and watch it.
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Postby Tim » 21 Feb 2008, 12:32

I saw glances of it while driving on the Malahat (a highway that passes through the mountains), but the other people in the car didn't think it was worth stopping at a rest stop to get a better view.

It was still cool.
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Postby jtaylor » 21 Feb 2008, 13:59

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I don't have a tripod and I couldn't find something to use as one, so I don't have any great pictures. This one is a four second exposure, thus the blur.
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Postby Lord Chrusher » 21 Feb 2008, 14:14

The next total lunar eclipse will be December 21, 2010 with totality between 07:40:21 UT and 08:54:34 UT. The eclipse will be best visible from North America although South America, Western Europe and Eastern Australia may be able to see it.
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