Lunar Eclipse

ChocolateChocolate The Team Mascot Join Date: 2006-10-31 Member: 58123Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">March 3, 2007</div>I heard there is going to be a lunar eclipse tommorow and wanted to point that out. I found a <a href="http://skytonight.com/observing/home/This_Weekends_Total_Lunar_Eclipse.html" target="_blank">Website</a> that talks about it.

So is anyone going to watch it? Here's a map of where it can be seen.
<img src="http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s2/dmustillo/March07TLE_l.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

If anyone takes a picture of it id like to see it. I'm a little into astronomy <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Hey whut, Moon hates Seattle D:
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    Probably wont see it because england is overcast 110% of the time.
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  • RustySpoonRustySpoon Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18069Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1610638:date=Mar 2 2007, 12:01 PM:name=Sonic)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sonic @ Mar 2 2007, 12:01 PM) [snapback]1610638[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Probably wont see it because england is overcast 110% of the time.
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    Yeah same up here too.

    Winter is a harsh mistress.
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  • ZeroByteZeroByte Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3057Members
    That graph you found is a lot clearer than the ones I was looking at last night. Was trying to figure out whether I would at least see a partial eclipse and at what time I would see it. Seems like we would only be seeing a prenumbral eclipse (only a slight darkening of the moon) so its probably not worth it getting up at 5 in the morning. I read somewhere else that another lunar eclipse is predicted this year on August 27 with the total eclipse visible from North America and the Pacific rim.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    Oh God oh God it's a sign of the end times! The arockalypse is upon us and the day of rockoning has come! Prepare your phat riffs!

    I might watch it.
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    wow it's a completely clear night here..i'll get to see it after all o/
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  • ChocolateChocolate The Team Mascot Join Date: 2006-10-31 Member: 58123Members
    edited March 2007
    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" /> i didnt see it, i only saw a half moon like thing. oh well.

    And yeah, there will be an eclipse sometime later this year and this time we'll see all of it <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    edited March 2007
    <img src="http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5253/33574666dz7.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />

    Pic my friend took.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    moon fails

    nice picture
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    edited March 2007
    Like the moon has a bald spot...

    I also witnessed this tonight and took pics (I shall see if they are any good tomorrow). It was pretty fascinating, as I don't think I had previously ever comprehended the nature of this floating sphere a couple of hundred thousand miles away. It's almost too big a concept for my mind to take, but seeing it, ahem, in a 'new light' such as tonight really drives home the reality of its predicament. Through my binoculars it was quite apparently spherical in shape.

    Anyone know why it glows red in the shadow of the earth?

    *edit* Nevermind, I found out myself:

    "While the Moon remains completely within Earth's umbral shadow, indirect sunlight still manages to reach and illuminate it. However, this sunlight must first pass deep through the Earth's atmosphere which filters out most of the blue colored light. The remaining light is a deep red or orange in color and is much dimmer than pure white sunlight. Earth's atmosphere also bends or refracts some of this light so that a small fraction of it can reach and illuminate the Moon." ~<i><a href="http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html" target="_blank">Lunar Eclipses for Beginners</a></i>
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  • MonkfishMonkfish Sonic-boom-inducing buttcheeks of terrifying speed&#33; Join Date: 2003-06-03 Member: 16972Members
    yes it's really rather awe inspiring if you really stop to think about it. Astronomy is fantastic.
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  • LikuLiku I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
    It looks like one of those large anime-esque nukes went off.
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    The face that many can see on the moon always looks like a screaming woman to me.

    So last night it looked like a screaming, blood covered woman.
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  • chubbystevechubbysteve Join Date: 2002-10-14 Member: 1496Members, Constellation
    I was inspired when I saw that. Inspired by the stupidity of the person that pointed it out, because he thought a planet was between <i>the earth and the moon</i>.

    So I just said 'Yeah it's incredible stuff isn't it,' shook my head and muttered 'how you can get dressed in the morning.'

    Anyways, lovely stellar choreography.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    You all have been deceived, it was just a graphical glitch of the skybox! Some environment cpu's were taken offline for maintenance, this can result in having glitches like this!












    Also I hate clouds <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":angry:" border="0" alt="mad-fix.gif" />
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  • X_StickmanX_Stickman Not good enough for a custom title. Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15533Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1611317:date=Mar 4 2007, 10:35 PM:name=chubbysteve)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chubbysteve @ Mar 4 2007, 10:35 PM) [snapback]1611317[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I was inspired when I saw that. Inspired by the stupidity of the person that pointed it out, because he thought a planet was between <i>the earth and the moon</i>.

    So I just said 'Yeah it's incredible stuff isn't it,' shook my head and muttered 'how you can get dressed in the morning.'

    Anyways, lovely stellar choreography.
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    Brain..... hurt...... pain.... bad
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    meh it was still sunny out when it happened so you couldnt really see it.
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    Well....if you're in the sun during a lunar eclipse...I'm not sure its <i>possible</i> to see it.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    edited March 2007
    Haha, that's almost as bad as the guy that thought there was another planet in the way. If the sun is shining on your side of the earth, it means you're the one blocking the light, which means there's no way you can see the moon getting shadowed. It's like trying to see your own shadow without turning around.
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    hehe. I'll save someone the effort of the obvious logical answer: there is a large patch of the earth that is neither in the light nor out of it, as the light hits it at a steep angle which is still bright enough to see by but also you can still see the moon - although it will fast be disappearing over the horizon (or coming up from it if it is coming out of the penumbra).
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    There's no way you could see the moon being fully eclipsed at the same time that the sun is shining on you; that's not how spheres (or roundish things like the Earth) work.
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  • MerkabaMerkaba Digital Harmony Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 22Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester
    No, but you would be able to see the transitional stage.
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  • CplDavisCplDavis I hunt the arctic Snonos Join Date: 2003-01-09 Member: 12097Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1611464:date=Mar 5 2007, 03:54 AM:name=CplDavis)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CplDavis @ Mar 5 2007, 03:54 AM) [snapback]1611464[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    meh it was still sunny out when it happened so you couldnt really see it.
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    lol i jsut realised what i typed.

    ha

    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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