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Total lunar eclipse over North America
This is the first one visible from the Americas since the winter solstice of 2011 (I also saw this one). Are you going to observe it?
I'm lucky - the forecast states I'll have ZERO cloud cover the night of the eclipse. I'll try to post photos when the eclipse occurs. It'll be the
very first time I've done this, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The blue bar in my sig is a clear sky chart (you can click on it and search for one
in your locality). Blue boxes mean better sky - the top is cloud cover, the bottom transparency. (Data is from the Canadian Meteorological Center.)
In the meantime, here's a photo of the moon I took a year ago, during the daytime. Quite ethereal if you ask me, but I wish it was better quality.
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/dutdP7i.jpg" title="From now on, I'm adding alt-text to my photos." width="800">
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When precisely is the eclipse?
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Shamelessly ripped off from Wikipedia. Times are in UTC. PDT is UTC-7 and EDT is UTC-4 for reference.
P1 4:53:40 (moon enters penumbra)
U1 5:58:19 (moon enters umbra)
U2 7:06:46 (total eclipse begins)
Greatest 7:46:48
U3 8:24:34 (total eclipse ends)
U4 9:33:02 (moon leaves umbra)
P4 10:37:33 (moon leaves penumbra)
Coverage map:
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src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Visibility_Lunar_Eclipse_2014-04-15.png/540px-Visibility_Lunar_Eclipse_2014-04-15.png"
title="If you live between lines U2 and U3, you will see the moon rise in eclipse. This is very rare and an excellent photo opportunity for eastern
Australia and some Pacific islands.">
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Brain&Force
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Weather looks excellent for eclipse observation.
Will be posting photos of the eclipse ASAP.
Please report your observations.
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I'll be watching it for sure! As will my whole family, about 2AM if I'm not mistaken.
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I'm going to try, but I live in the cloudy part of the country, so I'm not getting my hopes up too high.
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Brain&Force
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Might want to go at 1 AM, Zyklon, to see the shadow transit.
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ahh man.... I checked the forecast for my home area and it was clear as a bell, but I forgot I'd be on the coast away at work.... viewing conditions
much less promising  super bummed...
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I'll be awake till two so sure, might as well.
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starting to see some shade  the clouds are coming and going. 15 min ago I
couldn't see but the tiniest grey circle through 'em, and now its sittin in a big clear patch. hoping I will continue to have a view.
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Will fix later
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Can you back off on one and get the red moon, Spica and Mars all at once? Just came back in freezing my ass off. Got to warm back up then go back out
again.
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Nice pictures. You use an adapter to mount a camera to your telescope?
I ended up watching some with my naked eye, but used the NASA livestream by the window instead due to much better image quality and weather
conditions.
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clouds just came back.. been out there watching in the cold since 10:30ish. saw two shooting stars in addition.
nice pictures Brain&Force, wish I had something other than a cell phone to use. If I wasn't working on the coast I'd be 20min away from Chico
CA. they have a nice scope in upper park, I got to peep through a few times. roommate in college was a physics guy specializing in optics, and
worked at the local telescope hobby shop.
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I was in the Eclipse at MoonSet area but the clouds simply rendered it impossible to see. Didn't even bother to get my telescope.
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I saw it! It was surprisingly non-cloudy...just a few wispy things in the general area.
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I saw it too, it was perfectly clear that night! Funny that it happened on the Jewish Passover. Coincidence? Easily.
But four blood moons in two years? One on each Passover, and one on each Sukkoth (Jewish new year) for two years in a row?! That's one
HUGE coincidence!
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It was confirmed by NASA that we have had "blood-red moons" on the first day of Passover and the first day of Sukkoth on back-to-back years seven
times since 1 A.D. Three of these occurrences were connected to 1492 (the year the Jews were expelled from Spain by Queen Isabella) , 1948 (statehood
for Israel and the War of Independence), and 1967 (the Six-Day War) — some of the most significant days in Jewish history. According to NASA - Four
'blood-red' TOTAL lunar eclipses WILL fall again on Passover and Sukkoth in 2014 and 2015… the same back-to-back occurrences at the time of 1492,
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I'm not trying to start a conspiracy/religious flame-war, I'm just amazed by such a perfect coincidence.
http://www.pray4zion.org/TheComingBloodMoons.html
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Brain&Force
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When I woke up it was actually surprisingly cloudy! There was a lot of cirrus, but not enough to significantly diminish the view.
The photos were taken with the camera on the Galaxy S3 and a Celestron C8 made at least 20 years ago. Unfortunately I only got one good photo of the
whole eclipsed moon; several of the rest of them were cut off at the bottom. IrC, I tried to get ahold of a good camera, but that was all I had.
What colors did you see? It wasn't blood red to me, it was more like caramel or dirt-colored. 2011's eclipse was quite a bit redder. There haven't
been any major volcanic eruptions throwing dust into the air, so there isn't that light dispersion that makes the moon red.
Zyklonb, I think it has to do with how the calendars are constructed. Not too much of a coincidence.
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Hmm, no it's not the calenders. Blood moons could not be predicted with much accuracy at the time they were written.
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I'm with Z on this one (sorry Z but as a student of history I just cannot use that name in full - too much bad history behind it). The Jewish days for
Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles are aligned with the sun, not the moon. It was dull red to me but I was freezing my ass off so it may have been
just pre-passing out hypothermia induced hallucination.
Actually Mars being at it's closest in 6 years kept getting my attention, and of course the blue giant (Spica) helped to make it a cool looking sky.
The three made a great combination.
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I had nothing but cloud cover.
Still, i've seen some pretty good lunar eclipses in the past - and been able to show the kids too.
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Who's going to watch the upcoming eclipse? I'll be posting, if the weather is OK, sometime after 0300 Pacific Daylight Time.
It's visible from all of North America, but the west coast will get a better view.
[edit] seems I won't be able to see it. Too cloudy. Get good pics for me everyone!
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clear skies here, looking quite nice. if I get any pictures that show more than a blur, I'll pop them up later.
still really blurry, but this is my cell phone through one side of a pair of binoculars.
the main problem, was I couldn't get it to see the moon dimly enough to show detail
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a few pics I got, nothing too great just a small digi camera
  
  
  
stayed up till 6am.
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I'm surprised that no one said anything about the lunar eclipse tonight. Anyone else going to be watching? The first three in the tetrad I was
unable to see due to clouds, but it's crystal clear tonight
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