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Lunar Eclipse: Worship The Moon Gawd

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Debate and/or Discourse
There is a lunar eclipse tonight. Here is how you can watch it!
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080215-ns-lunar-eclipse-guide.html
There's not much to discuss, but the next one isn't until 2010, so I figured I should remind everyone. It's pretty cool. The moon is half red and slowly being blotted out. I live on the east coast.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    When will it be total on the east coast? The space.com thing isn't loading for me.

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  • MedopineMedopine __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    Probably cause a jillion people are loading that page right now.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    titmouse wrote: »
    When will it be total on the east coast? The space.com thing isn't loading for me.
    It should be approaching total within the next twenty minutes.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Ugh, you can turn on Fox and they are playing the eclipse in the right hand corner of the broadcast.
    It's Fox though. You probably shouldn't.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    It's pretty much total now.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    It's pretty much total now.
    liar

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yawn.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The ecliptic moon forms a triangle with a visible Saturn and the star Regulus. Surely there will be a good harvest this year!

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  • Ethan SmithEthan Smith Origin name: Beart4to Arlington, VARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    It looks like a ball suspended up in the sky, man.

    Fuck, why don't I have shrooms/acid/pot for this.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Also, if you look to your left, you can see the Big Dipper!

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    It's a beautiful night for stargazing!

    Orion is out in full force and there is a very bright, flickering blue star to its southeast. You can clearly see the nebula under its belt and the red star in his club is fucking awesome.

    And then the Big Dipper, and then Cassiopeia hiding behind some trees.

    I can't really recognize many constellations but this is neat

    And Regulus and Saturn look cool

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  • B:LB:L I've done worse. Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    It's a beutiful night for stargazing!
    IT IS CLOUDY AND RAINY.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Fox News will tell me if it is safe to look at the moon right now, after commercial break of course.
    I can't wait. I fear for my safety!

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    B:L wrote: »
    Hakkekage wrote: »
    It's a beutiful night for stargazing!
    IT IS CLOUDY AND RAINY.

    For your sorry ass maybe

    It was cloudy before but they dissipated right before the main event

    THE SKY IS MY THEATRE

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    I went outside and it was too cold, so I'm watching it from my window which has a clear view of it.

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  • Fuzzy Cumulonimbus CloudFuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm running inside to get warm and then going outside every 10 minutes or so.
    Totality will end in 12:51.

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  • HakkekageHakkekage Space Whore Academy summa cum laudeRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I really want to know what that star below Orion is. It's so bright I keep thinking it must be a plane or something. It's fairly low in the sky due south and it's blue.

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  • DasUberEdwardDasUberEdward Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Overall it's not a bad night for stargazing.

    Taurus is looking sexy. Canis Major is rocking out pretty swell.

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  • MgcwMgcw Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Way too fucking cold outside.

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I saw it for five seconds before I went back inside shouting brrrrrs and cursing the cruel snow gods.

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  • jotatejotate Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Totally clear view here in Ohio. I got my camera set up by about 10:15. I'll rip it, compress it into a couple minutes, throw it up on Youtube, and link it to ya'll tomorrow.

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  • jotatejotate Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Shit, I'm down to 9 minutes on the tape and it's either just barely getting to total eclipse or just coming out of it. I might have to do a quick tape swap. :/

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    And here I am without any wolfsbane

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited February 2008
    That was awesome.

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  • Shazkar ShadowstormShazkar Shadowstorm Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    That was kinda lame because I'm in NYC and whatever
    I wish I was in the woods of Maine

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  • An-DAn-D Enthusiast AshevilleRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I drove like 10 miles out to a creepy graveyard on top of a mountain to see the eclipse.



    I need friends. :cry:


    Got a neat picture or two at least.
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  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I listened to Muse and watched the eclipse. It was awesome.

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  • JamesKeenanJamesKeenan Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Hacksaw wrote: »
    I listened to Muse and watched the eclipse. It was awesome.

    Why didn't I think of that?!

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  • JragghenJragghen Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Yeah, it was a pretty nifty one. I've seen a number though, so I didn't spend more than a minute or so viewing it.

    I really want to see a solar eclipse sometime, but the next time there's one on my CONTINENT is 2017. You better fucking believe I'll be in Kentucky then, though.

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  • FyreWulffFyreWulff YouRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    edited February 2008
    This was neat, one of the few times a space event happened and Omaha didn't have a omfg-thick covering of clouds over it.

    too bad it was -2 degrees, I would have liked to watch it instead of running in and out the door in 10 second viewings.

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  • MasumeMasume Creator Caprica, FloridaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Watched it last night, pretty damn impressive. We didn't even know about it until our roommates wife ran in and yanked us all outside to take a look. Were out in the woods a bit so the sky was perfectly clear, and I don't really have to worry about the cold thankfully. :D

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  • RichyRichy Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    The sky was clear here, but it was -10 or -15. Not at all pleasant temperature for standing outside.

    I was at the campus pub, having beer and tequila, and occasionally going outside to watch the eclipse progress. Overall, a nice way to spend an evening.

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  • VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    mtvcdm wrote: »
    I saw it for five seconds before I went back inside shouting brrrrrs and cursing the cruel snow gods.

    -17 Here in madison was way to cold to be outside. Luckily a window had a perfect view.

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  • DeI2anGeDDeI2anGeD Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Just a quick FYI for those that were watching:

    the "really bright star below Orion", I'm assuming you were seeing Sirius, which is one of the brightest stars in the night's sky and apart of Canis Major.

    The "really bright start next to the moon", that was Saturn.

    The "Nonflickering bright solid red object directly above me" was Mars.


    It was really really cold here in Missouri last night, but I went out with the local astronomical society and was able to take advantage of several really awesome telescopes. Despite the moon looking absolutely incredible, the Orion Nebula and the Pleiadies star cluster were my favorite things to see.

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