Total lunar eclipse, February 20, 2008!

[MaidMirawyn]

Total eclipse tonight. If you've never seen one, make plans right now to see at least part of it! NASA has a Javascript app that will give you all the info you need. If you're in the Eastern time zone, it starts around 8 pm, and totality is 10:01 to 10:51 pm...

And on the subject of eclipses...did you know that our moon and the Earth are in a perfect relationship, both in size and in relative positions, to have lunar eclipses as well as total solar eclipses? It's true. God's cool like that.

Is it bad that I've been looking forward to it for weeks? Now I just have to hope the clouds clear out...

 

[Bonk!Ow!]

it's my birthday on the day of the lunar eclipse?

 

[tjguitarz]

Happy birthday! Happy eclipse day!

 

[tjguitarz]

Just in case you guys didn't know what an eclipse looked like.

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

Just in case you guys didn't know what an eclipse looked like.

I did not know it had the word across it thanks . I mean I knew about the partially written "Chairface" but that was all http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairface_Chippendale .

it's my birthday on the day of the lunar eclipse?

Sooooo you can tell me, man to gerbil... are you the harbinger of the apocalypse?

Oh happy birthday harbinger because even bringers of death and destruction need love too! Have fun destroying humanity

 

[Corpfox]

We have plans to video tape it, this marvelous wonder.

We should have a good view since we live up in the mountains.

 

[Stc95]

AHH SOMEONE STOLE THE MOON!!!!!

 

[moxie]

We had snow clouds tonight. meh.

 

[The Mighty Gerbil]

Overcast + rain here. If anyone gets a good picture they should post it

I never look directly at a celestial event anyway. After that meteorite shower everyone went blind and the Trifids ate them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids

 

[MaidMirawyn]

Just in case you guys didn't know what an eclipse looked like.

That's a solar eclipse...

Get it straight...Just as Gerbil said, the moon has "CHA" on it; the SUN has "Heroes" on it.

Easy way to tell them apart.

 

[MaidMirawyn]

We had snow clouds tonight. meh.

We had clouds, too, but they had some clear spots so we could catch "updates." AND they cleared out for almost all of totality! Yay!

It was gorgeous: a deep rust red during mid-totality.

And we have the perfect telescope for viewing the moon, so during totalities we got the best look ever at the surface features! There's so much detail that gets washed out by the brightness of the moon under normal viewing conditions!

 

[dorkelf]

I was almost too lazy last night to take our 80mm refractor out. Glad I did, the view was fantastic.