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Well tonight is a lunar eclipse and it's the winter solstice. In case you wondered the last time this happened was 456 yrs ago. Also you may get to see some meteors as well. You'll start seeing the shadow they said after midnight, but it'll be after 2am that the eclipse takes place. At least that's east coast time.

 

 

Margaret

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Got 2 more inches of snow this evening, cloud cover and it's time to go to bed. I'm sure somebody will have pics of it on here by morning........

 

:photographing:

Guest tx2sturgis
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http://184.72.239.143/mu/46eed859-6262-ebc2.jpg

 

 

Captured this image of the lunar eclipse this evening/morning.

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The clouds broke just long enough to get a good look. It peaked around 3am here. Me and my wife braved the cold for 30 minutes to watch. Quite impressive, glad I was not the only one up watching.

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I got up, looked out the window and it was still snowing.

The new snow and the whole sky wer a redish copper color.

Looked kind of cool.

 

In case you wondered the last time this happened was 456 yrs ago.
The last winter solstice lunar eclipse was on Dec 21, 1638, by my math that is only 372 years ago. That was also the ONLY other time that there was a lunar eclipse on the winter solstice going back to the year 1.

At least we do not have to wait as long to see the next lunar eclipse on the winter solstice, it will happen again on Dec 21, 2094. My source was NASA. They have been wrong before.

 

I'll start planning an all nighter M&E for that date......

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Complete dud here. Couldn't see moon at all. Warden said there was a red tint to the sky but being colorblind it didn't thrill me.

 

So if your colorblind was the blue beast really blue?:D

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the last time this happened was 456 yrs ago

 

The last winter solstice lunar eclipse was on Dec 21, 1638, by my math that is only 372 years ago.

 

Since I saw it last time, you're tellin me I ain't as old as I thought I was.... WOOOO HOOOO!!!

 

 

:thumbsup2: :thumbsup2: :thumbsup2:

Guest tx2sturgis
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Just trying out the forumrunner app for the iPad. Seems to work so far!

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It was clear here just before the Eclipse started.

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5203/5278888989_6c97a1fbf8.jpg

 

Then, when the actually eclipse was going on, the moon was invisible. 15 minutes before the "peak" (2:17AM central), the sky became patchy. Out of this 20 second exposure, about 15 was clear. The other 5 seconds were obscured, making the photo look blurry. Drat!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5123/5279898282_c0a16f25d5.jpg

Guest Ken8143
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Take a look at this!

 

[ame=http://vimeo.com/18026388]Riding the World...2010 on Vimeo[/ame]

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