It’s visible from the eastern half of North America to Western Europe, and points south. Worth a look if it’s not too cloudy where you are. Details are available at NASA’s eclipse page (delinked version below; paste it into your browser, and delete the spaces before “gov” and “html”):
sunearth.gsfc.nasa. gov/eclipse/lunar. html
The eastern half? *sighs*
I wonder what time it is… Better check the NASA page
I’m gonna try to see it….
hey! i looked at the eclipse site!
I live in the eastern side.
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I don’t think I can be up that late. Darn.
I need all the sleep I can get.
What’s the time? I’ll probably be up whenever it ends up being, due to my ridiculous amounts of homework, flute lesson, and hockey game, but even if I somehow manage to get it all done before midnight I’ll be getting up anyway. I like these kind of things, and I saw that meteor last time.
Does Minnesota count?
Wait. Never mind. My bedtime is 9:00. Drat!!!
I’m going to try to see it. it’s been on my calendar for a while. Maybe my dad can set up the telescope…
You don’t need a telescope to see a total eclipse. Earth’s shadow covers the whole moon, which grows dim, goes out, and eventually reappears.
Whee! 10:28 PM! That’s nothing compared to my normal bedtime of 10:30. *cough* Because they’re two minutes apart…
Wait, never mind, I have swimming. Phoo.
The lunar eclipse is from 10:00-10:52 pm in US Eastern time.
I think I’ll watch it. I’m usually up until at least 11, and since it’s Wednesday and I’m at my dad’s it will be later.
People on here go to bed really early. Or maybe I’m just too much of a night owl.
Wait. Double never mind. I live on the western half. Ah well. Just two more years until another eclipse…*sighs*
(11) Good news! You American Westerners can see the eclipse, weather permitting. It will already be in progress when the moon rises, but you can watch most of it. Only Alaskans will miss out.
(10) 10:28 is when the moon reaches maximum darkness. The partial eclipse starts at 8:43 p.m. U.S. Eastern Standard Time, and the whole show ends after midnight. (Blog time is an hour earlier.)
More information is available here (paste URL into browser, remove spaces, etc.):
sunearth.gsfc.nasa. gov/eclipse/LEmono/TLE2008Feb21/TLE2008Feb21. html
wow…….i MIGHT actually see it…….
The clouds started to clear away, a bit, so I might be able to see it!
Thank you. We mustn’t forget our manners.
It just appeared here, briefly: bright and full, as always just before an eclipse. Twenty-two minutes until it starts…
Oh, I thought it was supposed to be already over? That’s what Dad said anyway. Hmm, maybe I will get to see it then, but it’s retty cloudy here. *runs to check sky out of window* *realizes that it is now crystal clear* *blushes deeply and hopes that she will be able to see the eclipse after all*
Good, maybe it will work out!
I CAN SEE IT STARTING!!! Okay, I will be rational now. But the lower left corner (can a sphere have corners?) is looking a little dark…..I’ll go and check it again in a few minutes.
Okay, now it’s getting covered up enough to be quite exciting! I keep running to the window to check it, nd then squealing with delight and jumping around the house. Then calmly posting on MB…
It turned out to be a really beautiful night, all bright and clear and pretty!
OHWOWWWWWW!
It’s so pretty! Wow!
There are no words to describe it… maybe I should make some up.
“Lunatastic” and “Glotageous” and “Spiffalicious” and “Wowowowowowow” and “Moonariffic” and “Eclipse-cool”
It’s really getting covered now, and this is going to be a triple post….oops.
Sorry everyone, I’ll try to restrain myself, but it’s so exciting! *jumps up and down and wears self out* *pant, pant, gasp, gasp*
I’m going to stay up and watch, I think (in my pajamas). I can see what Midnight Fiddler is seeing, pretty much, although at first I thought the left hand side covering was clouds or something. Anyway, I’m pretty excited. And I’m thankful for MB for telling me about these celestial events, because I otherwise always hear about them too late…
This one is at a pretty reasonable hour, though.
Yes, beatuiful indeed. It’s now about halfway through, and the shadow looks slightly red-ish. Wowowowowowowow, as Kiki puts it. Such a gorgeous night, with the snow all over and the clear, clear, sky. Mmmm, wow, I just can’t get over it!
The clouds have parted here, and there’s a big bite out of it now. Impressive!
I assume you’re all dancing like maniacs and banging on pots and pans to scare away the dragon that’s eating the moon.
(By the way way, did you know that the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon? Makes you think, doesn’t it?)
(23) Not more rabbits… yikes! I see an otter myself.
My view is clouded over again right now, but at least the clouds are moving pretty quickly and I get a great view every fifteen minutes or so. It’s fun thinking about all of us watching.
It’s so clear here, we’re really spoiled. It’s halfway though it looks like, and you can see the curve of the earth in the shadow. The shadow looks a little bit red, just enough to be special.
As far as banging on pots and pans go, I’m not, really. I’m getting up every few moments and looking out the window or running out the back front doorto check on the progress in my stocking feet, freezing, running back inside and then writing some more.
I agree with Rebecca, it’s fun to think of all these people that are watching it at the same time, it makes you really think about your fellow Musers as real people more than some other times (even though you are all very real to me already).
I just looked again, it’s pretty much the same, and I noticed a few nice stars close to the moon that make it all the more beautiful!
I’ve been telling everyone online to go look at it! it is gorgeous! I love the color of the shadow on the moon!
27~ It’s really showing now, wow, what a sight!
Heheheh…We had a quick two inches of snow and now it’s clear! Unit HAWK on duty. I’m taking pictures every little bit, and I’ll send them. The problem is, both digital cameras around here are having problems, one isn’t working and the other is low on batteries. But it has held out so far!
It looks amazing, and it isn’t finished yet!!! The moon, I mean
Unit HAWK OUT!!!
Oh, I guess I could take pictures too, but it’s so pretty that I don’t think pictures could really do it justice. *runs to get camera anyway*
It’s around 3/4/ covered now, and so clear, it’s amazing! Wow, wow, wow, I guess I’ll go and see if I can get any decent pictures….actually, I’m not sure how mucha battery power I’ll have left, either…..
THAT WAS FLAMABLAMABLOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
The clouds cleared away, at least enough to see the moon and it was so cool! I’ve actually never seen a total lunar eclipse before — every time there is one it’s too cloudy to see it.
*utter awesomeness*
It’s completey gorgeous, and looking like just a little fingernail piece. the red of the shadow is the most amazing color, dark and mysterious! Well, to me anyway…
I got out the camera and made a few attempt to take pictures of it, it didn’t work. It just looked like a little speck in a bunch of dark sky and you couldn’t see the color at all. Ah well, I’ll remember it.
It’s really clear, and it’s amazingly Lunariffic! And Moontastic! Etc. etc. PRETTEH. I wish I had a telescope.
It’s almost completely covered here, it looks amazing, all red with a little bit of white peeking out of the edge. So beautiful I know I just keep saying that, but I reallycan’t find words to describe it, and when I try it seems so woefully inadequite.
8runs outside again and freezes self*
It now looks like it’s completely covered, but the upper right side is lighter and yellower than the rest. Still though, it’s pretty much totally in shadow.
Still another 15 minutes until totality.
It’s strange to think of the sun shining behind us, the Earth throwing a long, narrow tunnel of darkness into space, and the moon moving right into it. The tunnel is always there, but it’s so thin that it’s hard to hit, and usually the moon misses. Otherwise there would be an eclipse every full moon.
It’s frosty and clear here, and ice crystals are blowing off the trees.
Time for another look.
I just saw it. It was about half covered.
It’s so ******* cloudy! :mad::mad::mad::mad:
Ooh it’s so pretty!
And no clouds yay!
Ooh I just posted about it on the random thread like an idiot. Oh well.
Wait, now I see it.
I think I saw it, or at leasdt part of it. I was staring at the moon thinking how it didn’t look normal. It looked like a paper cutout.
It is so cold outside, but when watching the moon I can hardly feel it! Or, at least, I temporarily ignore the nerve signals or something.
It’s still happening. Now there’s a little sliver of brightness. It will get bigger and bigger over the next hour and a bit, until we have a normal full moon again.
ZOMG. It looks FLAMBABULOUS! It’s all red, and shadowy, and I sound like an idiot but oh well. It’s so pretty! I keep running to the foyer to check it. It looks totally awesome!
It’s gotten to be a cresent again, on the right side we’ve got the “fingernail” effect again. The redness is not as apparent, but it’s still beautiful.
Such fun and excitement! *squeals and dances with excitement*
I was talking to my grandparents in Wisconsin, and we were all watching it.
I watched it at a boyscout meeting… the blue and gold… one of the costumed ‘indians’ had a kokpelli shield. awesome. pointed it out to ag. he was there too. dont wanna capitalize…
I saw it! I saw it I saw it I saw it!!!
*dances*
It’s big and bright — just a smudge of darkness left, like part of an inky thumbprint. I think it’s going to make it.
(29) I can relate, RtH. And seems like every time I’d get the tripod set, the neighbor’s cat would come over and rub up against it. Or the other neighbors’ deck light would come on. Wish I’d had the patience to experiment with the SLR. Still, I got a few semi-decent shots.
49- It’s so…pretty! *stares at moon*
49-Oh wow! I tried to take pictures, but my brave and spiffy Kodak camera was sadly not up to the job (or I just wasn’t doing it right).
I did stay up and watch until the moon was about one half uncovered, although I never really saw it be totally red. Still, it was really cool, especially when I looked at the moon through my birding binoculars. I’d never done that, even on normal nights.
It was rather cold, though, but then we had a fire in a little fire thingy, so that was nice, even though it made it harder to see the moon.
24-Erm, of course, Robert ! And I (of course) assume you were doing the same thing, much to the delight of your neighbors.
URG! I missed it! Then again, I wouldn’t have been able to see it anyway, because
a) It was cloudy here.
b) It was at three in the morning.
Hey guys! I watched it! and I live in oregon. i guess they were wrong about the location of the eclipse, but it was amazing!
i looked at it through my spotting scope and it was supercool!
I was in opera pitt rehearsal when the eclipse started. During break, my friends and I went out to look at it. It was big. And kind of red. And it was really really cold outside. And we were all tired. And all of a sudden, I start to yell at the top of my lungs:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one!”
Yeah. Everyone just kind of stared at me, until I started to sing it again, and then they joined in. It was creeeeepy! We danced beneath a red moon! until it was time for rehearsal again, and then we all couldn’t play because our fingers were too cold…
49~ Nice pictures, I tried to get some, but my Kodak easy-share camera just didn’t work for taking pictures of the moon. It looked like a fuzzy reddish speck, not at all impressive, so I just enjoyed it while it lasted.
It was really amazing to watch, and then when I went out to my room later (or maybe I should say earlier, since it was after midnight…) the moon was all bright and normal looking again. Wow, it was great. *remembers* I hope my frineds got to see it, since I decided against calling them to tell them to look out the window.
Ah! I saw the eclipse! We stood in our backyard (we = my mom and sister (my dad was sleeping but came down for a bit at the encouragement of my sister)) and watched it go from the beginning to when it was all covered. We didn’t stay to see totality, because that was too late, but we did wait until all the light was gone from the right side of the moon to go to bed.
My sister tried to take some pictures, but they didn’t work. At all. They just came out smudged as like… smudged blobs of light. =/
I saw it from Mystic (Not where I live, just where I was on a trip, no need to snip)
I showed it to a lot of people and they all thought it was really cool. A lot of them called friends or took pictures. One girl said she read Muse! It was visible from the hotel courtyard, just over a statue of a family of whales.
49- OMG awesome pics Rebecca! I am in love with that first one with the bit of tree… I tried taking some, but the moon was to high for it to show up big enough in my camera and they all came up blurry xP. Remind me to ask for an actually photography camera for my birthday or something…
I missed a lot of it, sadly, as I was playing in a hockey game >.
I saw it through a telescope. I saw Saturn’s rings, and that star above the moon, Regulas. It was bluish tealish kinda. I also saw Orions Belt, and Mars.
(58) Jadestone, I think that first one is my favorite of all the photos I took. The clouds at that stage of the evening really created some stunning effects. I’ve posted a larger version, if you want to use it for anything.
(51, 55, 58) Thanks! I was surprised they came out as well as they did. The whole event inspired me to use the eclipse as the basis for the following day’s art class.
The trick is to use a tripod. You simply can’t hold those lightweight cameras still enough on your own in that kind of light, especially at high zoom. (My camera is nothing fancy, believe me: the least expensive Canon digital of two years ago.)
Rebecca — How did you get it zoomed in enough to take good pictures of the moon? We tried with my sister’s…um…Canon digital camera? And it didn’t work at all, we couldn’t zoom in far enough to get it more than a blodge of light.
(61) Different cameras have different zooms. Mine will magnify by 3X optically, but with digital enhancement it will go up to 10X — which I discovered accidentally after I’d had the camera for months.
60- *drools* I’ll have to see if I even could do anything with it, it’s amazing as is.
62- Wait… ahhhg I think I remember seeing that feature on our camera, but mom took it so I can’t find out…
ooooooh I love eclipses- when we went to ski camp last year there was one- it was amazing…the moon was blood red theres some amazing pictures of it on my bebo unfortunately I cant post the link due to rules etc but it was soooo cool and about 2 weeks ago there was a not total eclipse of the sun! noone knew but I was listening to the radio and I put on my ski goggles and I could see it…it looked like someone had taken a bite out of it but ity was hard to see
i saw the eclipse, but i have seen some before anyway. the night my cousin was born, the moon went into a partial eclipse and it turned blood red. and i got to see it! also, when the red sox were playing the 3rd game in the world series(which they won!) the moon went into another partial eclipse and turned red. it was sweet!!!!!!!!
I saw it!!! It was really pretty!!! I didnt watch it, but I saw the very beginning and the very end. It was awesome!!
I saw it too! It was pretty neat. I watched it with my friend from her conservatory, which meant we didn’t have to freeze outside. Big bonus. But I forgot my camera…
I couldn’t find my camera. It stinked. I had to pause American Idol to watch it.
Heeeeyyy, it should be the new cover of Breaking Dawn! Yeah!
What is ironic is that the next total lunar eclipse will be on Sagan Day.
on what?
December 20, the date of the Annual Carl Sagan Memorial Blogathon.
Hi, I’m not dead yet…
I went outside around 9:40 and stayed until 10:05 when I was close enough to frozen to justify leaving. The eclipse was almost total by then. It was beautiful. I also love Rebecca’s pictures.
71 – Who is Carl Sagan?
(1934-1996) A famous astronomer. He worked for NASA on the first missions to Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. He also started the SETI program to look for extraterrestrials. He wrote a lot of best selling books, including the one that the movie Contact was based on.
Um, Robert………..Have you actually met Rebecca? If so, do you type your entries from the same place, from home…….where?
sorry im random, but the random thread isn’t quite right for this…….
NAPOI — Rebecca and I have indeed met, as MBers who attended the Washington, D.C., Kokonventions last summer can attest. In fact, we went to the same high school. Nowadays, though, she lives in North Carolina while I live in northern Virginia, hundreds of miles away.
74 – Ah. I am enlightened now. *feels weird*
I’ve been spending too much time on PPP and MA RPG.
77- You’re welcome. I think that’s the basic information about him, I’m sure Administator Coontz can tell me if I left anything important out.