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)

[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)

COOL!!!

have fun tomorrow!!!!


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

[Cinder & Smoke]

Originally posted by boscibo

NEATo Time-Lapse, Boscibo!!!

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!!!

Really! That's so cool

[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

[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!

[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.