Feb 20 Total Lunar Eclipse, Bundle up and enjoy the show |
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Feb 20 Total Lunar Eclipse, Bundle up and enjoy the show |
 Feb 20 2008, 10:50 AM
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 Vented Out  Group: Administrators Posts: 1,360 Joined: 10-August 07 From: USA Member No.: 8  |
The moon will enter Earth's umbral shadow (the full shadow) at 8:43 p.m. ET (that's 7:43 p.m. Central, 6:43 p.m. Mountain and 5:43 p.m. Pacific) on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Add 80 minutes until it is total.
Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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Feb 20 2008, 11:06 AM
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 Venting Addict Group: Members Posts: 954 Joined: 13-October 07 From: Erin TN Member No.: 158 |
Cool, thanks for the heads up.
-------------------- 'No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'
-- Ronald Reagan  I Search for the Sjogren's Foundation,Who will you search for? |
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Feb 20 2008, 11:26 AM
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 Mods and Rockers Group: Moderator Posts: 1,071 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
i was just going to post on this, you beat me to it...all good. Should be good viewing weather here on the East Coast.
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Feb 20 2008, 01:34 PM
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 Venting Addict Group: Moderator Posts: 967 Joined: 26-August 07 From: Canada Member No.: 37 |
Should be able to just sit on our balcony and watch it - yipee!! Thanks for letting us know as I'd surely have missed it otherwise, Z.
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Feb 20 2008, 04:36 PM
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Vented Out Group: Administrators Posts: 1,360 Joined: 10-August 07 From: USA Member No.: 8 |
I will be watching if it doesn't snow (again and still) and cloud up. At least the timing is early enough so it will be over by the time I normally go to bed.
Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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Feb 20 2008, 06:17 PM
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Mods and Rockers Group: Moderator Posts: 1,071 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
Here at the latest viewing stats I found.
A total lunar eclipse takes place on the night of February 20. Partial eclipse begins at 8:43 p.m. EST. Totality occurs at 10:01 p.m. EST and ends at 10:51 p.m. EST. The eclipse ends at 12:09 a.m. EST. During the eclipse, Regulus is some 3 degrees above the Moon and Saturn is approximately 4 degrees to its lower left. This will be the last total lunar eclipse until December of 2010 Enjoy |
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Feb 20 2008, 09:54 PM
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Mods and Rockers Group: Moderator Posts: 1,071 Joined: 13-August 07 From: West of the Empire State Building Member No.: 16 |
Sorry for the double post but it looks great !!
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Feb 20 2008, 09:59 PM
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Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 260 Joined: 16-January 08 Member No.: 367 |
Hope the clouds leave my area so that I may watch this one!
Last one here like many of the ones I have seen before, are an eery looking gray-pink around here. Once back in "85" we had an errant aurora borealis between detroit and ann arbor it was a beautiful magenta with waves of purpley green. Messed up my two way radio so much that nobody was able to comment on it during it's short 20 minute life. I'll be back in an hour or so. Looked out my front window and saw pink coming!!!!! It's nine fifty seven here in michigan. |
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Feb 21 2008, 08:51 AM
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Venting Addict Group: Members Posts: 954 Joined: 13-October 07 From: Erin TN Member No.: 158 |
I got to watch the full eclipse.
Thank God I could see it from the front window 'cause it was cold  out there last night. Other than a couple of clouds passing over I got to see a beautiful show, AND even got my daughter to look out at it. She said "That's really cool - looks like blood"  Well at least she enjoyed it!
-------------------- 'No arsenal, no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'
-- Ronald Reagan I Search for the Sjogren's Foundation,Who will you search for? |
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Feb 21 2008, 08:52 AM
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Vented Out Group: Administrators Posts: 1,360 Joined: 10-August 07 From: USA Member No.: 8 |
The clouds stayed away long enough so that I could watch it from (at first) my picture window, and then from outside. I had not seen an eclipse for quite some time, and it was really beautiful. I hope others could watch the moon being devoured.
Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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 Feb 21 2008, 09:24 AM
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 Who's your Daddy? Group: Moderator Posts: 1,986 Joined: 13-August 07 From: Tampa Bay Area, Florida, USA Member No.: 11 |
I was "clouded over".
-------------------- I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!  |
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Feb 21 2008, 09:54 AM
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100% cloud cover here and light snow too. Dang it!
But I did see some some good TV (satellite) coverage of it this early morning. Oh, well. Only 2 1/2 years 'till the next one showing here. -------------------- The only easy day was yesterday....
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Feb 21 2008, 10:08 AM
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Vented Out Group: Administrators Posts: 1,360 Joined: 10-August 07 From: USA Member No.: 8 |
GIves you something to look forward to, doesn't it?
Z -------------------- Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one should be silent.
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Feb 21 2008, 10:24 PM
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 Advanced Venter Group: Members Posts: 154 Joined: 13-August 07 From: NEO Member No.: 14 |
I saw the other night. It was amazing. I heard we won't see this again until sometime in 2010.
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