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Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:08:39 AM   
camille65


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Status: offline 		Heya there is going to be a lunar eclipse tonight, one of the red moon ones.(could explain some of the weirder posting going on lately lol)

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:13:44 AM   
kittinSol


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Status: offline 		I was wondering whether it could explain the wind of folly that's going over us.

But I don't want to start another astrology thread  .

Where will it be visible the best?

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:18:54 AM   
camille65


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Status: offline 		In the sky?Heh actually I don't know.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:23:23 AM   
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Status: offline 		The moon is to appear high in the southern sky when the Earth's shadow begins to travel across the lunar surface from left to right at 8:42p.m. Total eclipse is to last from 10p.m. to 10:51p.m., with the moon emerging from shadow at 12:09a.m. Unlike a solar eclipse, no special eye protection is necessary to watch the event, caused when the Earth comes between the sun and the moon.

From: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/305129


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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:25:38 AM   
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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:34:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		My thanks as well. I sure hope it is a clear night tonight (and that I can stay up late enough to bundle in layers and go outside to see it)

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:45:46 AM   
Sanity


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Status: offline 		Christopher Columbus once used an earlier occurrence of this eclipse to scare some native islanders into helping he and his men to survive until help arrived. His almanac predicted it, and so he told them he would destroy their moon if they refused to help him, and they believed him when the eclipse began.

On another note, a meteorite hit the middle of Washington State yesterday morning at about this time (as I post this). I saw it as it streaked across the sky, too, a huge bright blue flash of light out of the corner of my eye - and it kind of scared me. I didn't know what the hell it might have been, and it lit up the whole countryside for a moment.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 5:46:08 AM   
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Status: offline 		I know! I am such a geek when it comes to this kinda stuff.  I took out the fire bowl already so that I have it set up and ready to warm me and the neighbors when all the fun stuff starts. *squee!*

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 6:33:45 AM   
MadameMarque


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Status: offline 		Camille and Kyttyn, thanks for the heads-up. 

Also, here's a handy page from Wikipedia, on visibility, by time zone, for the Americas, Europe, and Africa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_February_2008_lunar_eclipse

Have a great full moon, all.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 6:47:30 AM   
TheHeretic


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Status: offline 		        Figures.  Weather forecast is for cloudy skies over my typically cloudless desert tonight.  Might have to find some other way to turn a 'moon' red...

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 7:01:48 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've always wondered why some lunar eclipses turn red and some don't. The first one I ever really watched (in the desert outside Palm Springs) was a red one (looked like a burned-out lightbulb and really spherical). Then the next one (from Back Bay Boston) was one where the moon simply disappeared at full eclipse. I felt a little bit cheated; I'd been standing out in a wind chill of about zero, and no red moon.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 9:29:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		I've been all excited about this.. and while it started out to be a nice clear day, it's now clouded over..*grrrr*

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 9:59:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Heck, it starts around 5 pm here, probably wont get to see it. 

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 10:00:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: SubbieOnWheels

I've always wondered why some lunar eclipses turn red and some don't.



Sometimes, the Moon is embarrassed and she blushes...

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 10:05:45 AM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

quote:

ORIGINAL: SubbieOnWheels

I've always wondered why some lunar eclipses turn red and some don't.



Sometimes, the Moon is embarrassed and she blushes...


awwwww..... :)

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 10:06:21 AM   
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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 10:06:51 AM   
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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 2:36:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thats bad, I was going to try and stay up and watch it cos' I thought its was about 1 am, but nearly 3 am No thats too late for little me.
I shall be fast asleep and hugging my Teddy Bear.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 2:41:07 PM   
SubbieOnWheels


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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I know... a little sickening, wasn't it  ?


But funny.

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RE: Lunar Eclipse Tonight - 2/20/2008 2:49:38 PM   
slaveboyforyou


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Status: offline 		It's cloudy here, and it's supposed to get stormy.  So I won't be seeing it.  But it's 60 degrees here; gotta love that. 

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