Anybody have plans? I will be going for a midnight hike up Mount Prevost:
Here is me on Prevost last summer:
It’s March 13 for us on the West Coast. It reaches full eclipse just before midnight.
You’re right, I changed it to reflect both days.
Thanks for the heads up!
You can read about the eclipse here:
To clarify: it is visible to pretty much the entire Western hemisphere. 66 minutes of totality, tho it will not pass thru the center of the Earth’s umbra so one limb will be brighter than the other.
Early in the morning in the UK and the Moon will set just before Totality but worth seeing as long as it’s clear enough.
But will see the partial solar a couple weeks after if it’s clear enough.
Yeah, lunar eclipses are pretty common: There’s one or two every year, and when one happens, it’s visible from over half the planet. And they’re not nearly as dramatic as solar eclipses.
That said, any excuse to go hike up a mountain is a good one. Enjoy!
Whoa, cool! My wife and I are gonna fly up to Victoria. Can you pick us up, @FloatyGimpy ? Just kidding, LOL. 
No plans yet but thanks for letting us know! We might go up to the summit of our local Santa Cruz Mountains, only about an hour away from where we live. We did that to catch a Leonids meteor shower some years ago and it was great. It’s far enough away from the city light pollution and yet near enough that it’s convenient enough.
In 2018 for the Perseids meteor shower, we drove to southern Oregon for it. That’s 600 miles from home! It was nice and dark but really wasn’t all that worth it. We probably mistimed our campout. But it was nice and quiet, in complete solitude.
Here was that trip. It was comfy in the back of the Jeep —
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The cot was for lying on our backs and watching the meteor shower. That’s what you want to do for a meteor shower —
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Possibly for the lunar eclipse, we may want to lie on our backs. I’ll have to look it up for our location.
There was nobody around for miles and miles. We were in the middle of a field —
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So I don’t want to hijack the thread but meteor showers are somewhat related.
I’ll have to figure out my strategy for this total lunar eclipse.
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Added — from the wiki page, this is interesting,
“Unlike a solar eclipse, which can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world, a lunar eclipse may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth.”
Yes, a lunar eclipse can be seen from more than 10,000 times the area that a solar eclipse can be seen.
It’s also about 10,000 times less interesting.
I believed you for a second and I was excited! That looks like it was a lovely trip.
Sorry, didn’t mean to yank your chain. If we ever drive the Alaska Highway like I’ve been wanting to do since forever, we’ll give you a shout out and see if we can meet up for a lunch somewhere along our way north. Or on our way back home.
➜ Alaska: how far north can I drive? ■
And yes it was lovely trip. We were at Pillars of Rome, Oregon, a historical landmark with some interesting land formations (images here).
The weather isn’t looking promising here on the West Coast. I’ll probably not stay up for the eclipse.
Nor on the East Coast - the more optimistic forecast is ‘mostly cloudy’.
Guess I won’t be a zombie tomorrow as max eclipse time for us is about 3am.
We’re probably going to cancel. The forecast has changed from ‘partially cloudy’ to ‘cloudy’ and there’s a chance of rain/snow moving closer to eclipse time.
Clear skies and a million miles vis here on this part of the US East coast. Same as the last couple and next couple of days.
Now at midafternoon it’s 79F/26C. For the 6 hours of totality it’ll be generally 63F-ish/17C-ish. I was up waay too late last night raising hell, so tonight might be a health night with an early turn-in.
We’ll see if I get up the gumption to get up to see it.
The Peanut Gallery has been heard from. I’ll take cloudy skies over Flori-duh Man, TYVM! 
Ditto. Did you see the moon last night? I saw it this morning and it knocked my socks off, low to the horizon and huge.
I did. Spectacular.
I believe you mispelled “The Wingnut Gallery”. 
Floriduh is chock full o’ wingnuts.