The eclipse is starting!

The lunar eclipse is starting - 5:32PM CST. Looking east, over Lake Michigan, on a clear, cold night, it’s a beautiful sight. I’m going to take a telescope outside when it gets closer to totality.

Totality, from my vantage point, will be 7:06PM CST to 7:30PM.

Sorry, my webcam is pointing the wrong direction, and won’t pick it up.

This is the last total lunar eclipse that will be visible from earth until April, 2007.

U.S. Naval Observatory Lunar Eclipse Computer

WAY! COOL!

It’s raining here. Poop.

Personally, I’d rather have cats and dogs than poop. :eek:

Overcast here, and I waited to see this. Crap!

You poor guys, you-all live in the wrong place. Crystal-clear skies here.

The moon is being eaten by the moon-monster. A big chunk is already gone. My guess is it will continue.

Time for another beer.

I saw just the beginnings of it and now it’s completely clouded over. :frowning:

Dang! You mean there’ll be more eclipses but they won’t be visible from Earth? :slight_smile: I’m kidding, of course, but someone was bound to point it out.

It’s still daylight here in Oregon and besides being overcast, there’s a lot of smoke. Thplbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt!

Mr. Moon, where goest thou? Playful inhabitant of the nightly skies, showing thy face, yet sometimes hiding neath the shadows of blue.

Were you nibbled away, a white cookie silhouetting the trees of my woods, the darkness hungry to consume you?

The crescent of your smile foretells yet a future celestial game of hide and seek. Shall it be you or Mr. Sun who initiates the next round of syzygy, whilst I watch from this cerulean orb?

It’s totally clouded over here. :frowning:

Perfect weather for moon-gazing here in Michigan. It’s almost totally eclipsed now. Really cool.

It is spanking clear here.

The kids were not impressed with the disappearing moon.

It’s gone 1am here, and the eclipse is intermittently visible through the clouds. Don’t know why, but we appear to have TWO moons - maybe it’s the quantity of beer consumed.

It is a bit cold here tonight (25F) and the sky is crystal clear. Great moon viewing unlike the damn clouds for the last eclipse. =)

Kids! What’s the matter with kids today!? :stuck_out_tongue:

It was awful cold outside, down by the lake, so we retreated just at totality. It didn’t seem as red or dim as the eclipse in May. At least that one was warmer.

Hey, Steve & Chris – you warming up at the fireplace?

I hear that (opens another Amber Bock).

Hey, it’s re-emerging now.

Our kid seemed very impressed… she’s a bit silly though. We wrapped her up in a blanket and took her outside (She’s only 2 1/2) now she keeps asking me to swaddle her so she can go see the stars.

:slight_smile:

Kids! Who can understand a word they say?

Aw…it’s happening again.

But in reverse. Ho-hum.

And while we’re on the subject…kids!

Tanookie – your kid will grow up to be a scientist. Not like Shirley Ujest’s, who have no sense of wonder. :wink: