For those of you willing to stay up late, there will be a total eclipse of the moon on August 28 visible to various extents over most of the western hemisphere and some of east Asia. The show is a little late for me (some might call it early) as I'm on the east coast right now, but if you're up for it, enjoy. After the jump are two photos I took of a total lunar eclipse on 10/27/04:
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"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting." -Lemony Snicket
Those of you who live basically anywhere other than North America are in for a treat this Wednesday. All over Earth, of course, the Moon is nearing its "full" phase…
"They call it a great wonder
That the Sun would not
though the sky was cloudless
Shine warm upon the men." -Sighvald, Icelandic poet
A couple of times a year, during the New Moon, the Sun, Moon, and Earth all line up in the same plane. As seen from Earth, the Sun's disc appears blocked, either in…
As Bonnie Tyler sang, and later The Dan Band (with more cursing),
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart
Well, it isn't the heart, but this Wednesday night, beginning at 10 PM Eastern Standard time (8 PM my…
Poetic lot those ancients.
There is a total lunar eclipse this weekend, saturday at midnight in western Europe, right at sunset on the east coast of the US.
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From NASA Headline News Feb '07
To see it in the US, hope for clear skies, and find high ground with unobstructed view…
Titling this post "Turn Around"? Evil. Or maybe I get music stuck in my head too easily.
I live to serve.
Yes, that title is evil since it has done the same to me. I am now reminded of my days as a 16-year-old clerk in a pharmacy that played "easy listening" all day. That song was repeated regularly.
As for staying up late, this eclipse is going to be more like 'getting up early.' Either way, it ain't happenin'. One values sleep even more when one has children who have not yet hit the 'sleep-all-day' pubescent years.
If Aaron is on the east coast, he is right to describe the eclipse as being too late. At my location (New Hampshire) the center eclipse time of 0637 EDT is after sunrise.
I just want to say that you should all thank me for not posting a reminder to this post titled, "I really need you tonight".
It took a lot of effort not to do so, and I hope you appreciate it.
I did a LiveWebCast from Hungry Valley, CA (in the middle of the desert) using my mobile satellite-DSL equipped 4x4 van:
http://eclipsechaser.blogspot.com
I never intended to do the webcast thing, it came upon me as I was sitting through the partial umbral phase: Why not deploy the satellite dish (5 min operation) & start blogging? I was also surprised at the dramatic effect of the "stars coming out" during totality. One needs to experience a lunar eclipse in the outback (away from city lights).
I got some interesting wide-angle shots with the eclipsed moon against stars & Milky Way, those images will be posted soon. Also shot some video.
I got a reasonably good shot of the last lunar eclipse, while the lighted portion was a crescent, by using a cell-phone camera held to the eyepiece of a 60mm refractor at 23x. It well showed the dark region's reddish gloam, those cell cameras can be rather good (such great light sensitivity compared to ordinary cameras of old.) I'll try to get it up on the 'net sometime.
A lunar eclipse occurred again on Feb 20, 2008(?). However, since I was asleep when it happened and I live in a rural area, I downloaded it using using satellite DSL connection.