lunar eclipse

[RICHARD]

tomorrow afternoon, evening there will be a lunar eclipse!

check your local newspaper for the time of the moonrise...


you DO NOT NEED any special viewing equipment...
binoculars, a telescope are helpful......


the next lunar eclipse will be November 8, 2003!!!

[boscibo]

Thanks for posting this - for some reason I thought it was tonight! I am planning on setting up my tripod and my digital camera, I would have been out there tonight, wondering why nothing was going on! Here's the animated .gif I made during hte lunar eclipse on January 20, 2000. It was like 0° that night, and I didn't have a tripod. Sorry it's so big (89k)

http://home.attbi.com/~patti76/eclipse.gif

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by boscibo
Thanks for posting this - for some reason I thought it was tonight! I am planning on setting up my tripod and my digital camera, I would have been out there tonight, wondering why nothing was going on! Here's the animated .gif I made during hte lunar eclipse on January 20, 2000. It was like 0° that night, and I didn't have a tripod. Sorry it's so big (89k)

http://home.attbi.com/~patti76/eclipse.gif

COOL!!!

have fun tomorrow!!!!


nice to know there are other 'lunatics' out there!!

[Cinder & Smoke]

Originally posted by boscibo

http://home.attbi.com/~patti76/eclipse.gif

NEATo Time-Lapse, Boscibo!!! :D

Here's some trivia and a link to an interesting site...

A total lunar eclipse will soon darken the full moon for most of North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

To our ancestors, there were no two more important objects in the sky than the Sun and Moon. They represented the rhythms of life itself. They feared lunar eclipses, thinking it might even be the end of the world.
Embedded in the fear was also fascination and wonder. Today we know why eclipses occur, but understanding did not take away the wonder and beauty of this shadowplay of Earth and Moon. Join us in an exploration of our nearest neighbor in space, and the only other world that man has walked upon.

At 9:05 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 15 (01:05 UT May 16), the eclipse will officially begin. More than an hour later, at 11:13 p.m. EDT, totality begins as the entire moon is cast in Earth's shadow. After 53 minutes, totality ends. The eclipse ends at 2:15 a.m. EDT.

Above taken from http://starrymessenger.net/

[HoRsELUvR]

cool a lunar eclipse.ill try to see it if i can.

[anna_66]

Originally posted by Cinder & Smoke
NEATo Time-Lapse, Boscibo!!! :D


Really! That's so cool:D

[Kfamr]

I'm going to watch it,,, even try to take pics.:)

[primabella]

We have one tonight! :)

It's late though - past midnight so I'm going to ask my sister if she can snap a few pictures (she's studying for her end-of-the-year exams for college) It's supposed to be really nice like have all sorts of colors in it. I wanna see it :D

[CamCamPup33]

we also have one tonight!! im so excited.. i just covered a chapter in science of lunar and solar eclipses so it will be fun to watch!!! yay! lol gotta go look! its now 9:20

[DoggiesAreTheBest]

I will be on the look out.

I saw a solar eclipse in Lebanon in 1999. It was awesome!!

[iceyshiver21]

I Watched it.

[ramanth]

Too cloudy here. :(

Saw some video footage of it on the news.

[Logan]

I think it was too cloudy here, too. Unfortunately, I don't know because I fell asleep! :o

[anna_66]

We watched till the moon was completely covered, it was soo weird to see it there one minute and gone the next. I did take a few pictures, of course they are not so great, but I will try to post them soon:)

[catland]

after a cloudy miserable day, the clouds started to part before the moon was scheduled to rise in the sky. Then, closer to eclipse time, a big rain cloud came in that filled the sky so no eclipse viewing for me.

Hope the rest of you had a great time.:)

[Cinder & Smoke]

:( Awwwww, NUTZ! sed :mad: Dad...

Akshoolie, he dint zaktly say "nutz", but
datz klose enuff! :o

Wuz rainin bout 9 a-klok; so we wuz gonna stay an watch onna puter - but da rain stopped. Dad checks onna radar anna satalite pix = "Oh, GOODY - big kleer spot ober da Howze - LETZ GO!"

Half way home it wuz rainin so hard we kunnit see da road!

Weez all inna back yard - *Lookin UP*.
Dad'z all cited - "Itz happnin! Gettin DARK!"

Yipes! Dad - Itz "DARK" kuzza all da *KLOWDZ* anna fakt itz RAININ Klawz & Pawz! :rolleyes: Weez gettin *wet* - kan we go inna Howze, paLeeze!?

We all go in an dry off.
Dad shutz off ALLUA litez inna howze an opinz da kurtinz. Sitz onna chair wiff hiz hed kranked around all phunnie *Lookin UP*!

TV Weathur Guyz all sayin nunbuddie inna hunnert milez iz gonna see it - wall ta wall KLOWDZ! "MITE
kleer up bout 1 a-klok to see da end."

Wun a-klok getz here an Dad startz *moanin*...
Seemz hiz neckbone got a permanint *krik* innit frum *Lookin UP*!
We go "out back" ta try agin... :rolleyes:

Uhhh, DAD! Where'z all dis WADDUR kummin frum?
Shudint der be sum *STARRZ* inna sky?
Still lookz a lil *klowdy* ta us.
*We* kunnit see nuffin but *black sky*!
No hint uvva "Moon" up der!

An so ended da Great Lunar Eklipze in easturn O-Hi-O... :p

Aftur gettin all dried off (agin!), we all pile'd onna BigBed an
got to lissin to Dad *moan* bout hiz sore neckbone all nite!

GREAT Tyme wuz had by all! :p

Hope summa you guyz had better luck dan we did!

[lbaker]

rain & HUGE funder here. No sky sightings at all. Drat drat & double drat:(

[lizbud]

Indy had perfect weather for a great view.(First time in years)

It was an awesome sight.:D After standing out in the backyard
for awhile at the start of it, I went back in the house for a minute
and discovered I had a good clear view from the dining room
window, so I got comfy & watched from there.Thanks Boscibo
for the cool pictures.:D

[RubyMutt]

My favorite band was in Seattle last night, so I was at their concert. I missed the eclipse :( The concert was awesome though :D

I saw that last lunar eclipse we had... it was amazing!

[RICHARD]

november 8 is the next celestial event/lunar eclipse!!!

if we start praying right this minute maybe, just maybe, we ALL
can see it...



cinder and smoke-

you guys are real troopers for hanging in with your dad!
what an adventure!!!

[mugsy]

Not only was it too cloudy in Fort Wayne to see anything...my eyes were shut so everything looked dark.:p

[anna_66]

I couldn't make anything like boscibo did, but I did make this!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid62/pbfbace906d45ee545f1857ac365ea541/fc2281b2.jpg

[Cookiebaker]

Wow, Anna That is soo COOL!!!! I love it!!

We kinda forgot about it, and like Mugsy "my eyes were shut so everything looked dark." :D Mark was upset that he forgot about it!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by anna_66
I couldn't make anything like boscibo did, but I did make this!
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid62/pbfbace906d45ee545f1857ac365ea541/fc2281b2.jpg


o.k.
you made it disappear.....;)

can you please make it reappear???:D

[Cinder & Smoke]

Originally posted by RICHARD
can you please make it reappear???
:D

Sure, Rich...

Jest turn yur monitor Uppy-Side-Down!

:p

Anna ~

WAY :cool: Cool :cool: pix!!!! :)

[anna_66]

Originally posted by RICHARD
o.k.
you made it disappear.....;)

can you please make it reappear???:D
:p Sorry, no can do! When the lights went out, I did too!

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by anna_66
:p Sorry, no can do! When the lights went out, I did too!

hokay!

but cinder and smoke made it come back!

now i have the same crick in my neck THEIR dad has!!!

i spent all night playing computer games upside down!:eek: