Feb 20th Lunar Eclipse! Is it in your area??

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iamnotaparakeet
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20 Feb 2008, 8:37 pm

Letting you all know about it! 5 minutes on the atomic clock from now.

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20 Feb 2008, 9:10 pm

It's starting!

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20 Feb 2008, 9:11 pm

We can see it!

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20 Feb 2008, 9:40 pm

Moon is almost completely red now. Raleigh scattering is cool. During the initial covering I could see blue on the edge of the shadow, now mostly red.

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20 Feb 2008, 9:53 pm

Dang, I wish we didn't live in Chicago. It never gets dark enough at night to really see this stuff well.

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20 Feb 2008, 10:14 pm

really cool. It's like half blood-moon, half regular moon. Weird.

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20 Feb 2008, 10:16 pm

I thought it was fabulous.

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20 Feb 2008, 10:22 pm

i can see it out my window. neat. i took a picture. id like to think its a giant black wolf biting the moon and the red is the moons blood.

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20 Feb 2008, 10:31 pm

I've been watching it -- it's pretty cool. And beautiful too!

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20 Feb 2008, 10:34 pm

I'm watching it but I'm not getting the cool colors you guys are describing :cry:

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20 Feb 2008, 11:04 pm

Cloudy skies tonight of course. Oh well, hope it was awesome for all who got to see it.

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20 Feb 2008, 11:05 pm

totally awesome!

I live for this kind of stuff.

Funny, Mars is just off to the right and the sun is exactly behind the Earth and I'm the crux. AND I saw a shooting star to boot!

Bow before me!

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20 Feb 2008, 11:09 pm

I went ahead and combined the two eclipse threads.

I couldn't help but to take photos, even though my camera isn't made for this.

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20 Feb 2008, 11:15 pm

Yes, I saw it!

My flat is on the East side of the building. I have been watching it out the window my computer is next to.

I'm glad it is tonight as tomorrow through Friday it is supposed to be snowing here!

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20 Feb 2008, 11:23 pm

The clouds hung around all day, until I had given up all hope of watching the eclipse.

Then, just before sunset, the cloud cover began to scatter. By 6:30pm, our skies were clear. It was incredible.

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21 Feb 2008, 2:45 am

I saw it, it was beautiful! We had clouds here in the morning but they dissipated just in time. Saturn was nearby, to the left and a little lower.

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