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Post by Retrovision on Feb 20, 2008 19:29:29 GMT -8
This Just In...From about 15 minutes ago (I'm lucky to have a great view from my appartment) of the last lunar eclipse (sun, earth and moon aligned giving the moon a great red glow) until December 2010:
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Post by Retrovision on Feb 20, 2008 19:39:32 GMT -8
P.S. Here's an official visual explanation for the sight that the clouds have parted to show us
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Post by Low Light Mike on Feb 20, 2008 19:51:08 GMT -8
Isn't that diagram a "solar eclipse", as the moon is between the earth and the sun.
I thought that a lunar-eclipse would have the moon & earth reversed....meaning that the earth gets-in-the-way of the sun, and so the sun doesn't reach the moon.
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Post by Ferryman on Feb 20, 2008 20:02:52 GMT -8
I saw the lunar eclipse an hour ago from downtown Squamish. I couldn't see it from my house due to how close I am to the mountains. But there just happened to be a nice opening between the Chief and the Smoke Bluffs to be able to see it. Lots of other people were out watching it, yet continued to call it a "solar eclipse"
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Feb 20, 2008 20:06:19 GMT -8
If they tried looking at that they'd be blind.
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Post by Retrovision on Feb 20, 2008 20:25:13 GMT -8
I thought that a lunar-eclipse would have the moon & earth reversed....meaning that the earth gets-in-the-way of the sun, and so the sun doesn't reach the moon. Thought? I'd have been certain if I was you. You caught my hastily posted unsubstantiated post off guard, thanks in part to the lack of comprehensive database at www.thefreedictionary.com and their ease of passing the buck by linking to something completly different as if it were the same. I do, however, always appreciate the almost comforting way in which you correct, Mr. Horn. I've now modified my post you helped me correct before it was too late, thanks. While I'm at it, I should also mention that I I corrected the description of my current signature given in the thread of the same name to read " Queen of Cumberland" (did that early yesterday when I first noticed ), instead of what my groggy unfocussed at-the-time mind typed in haste, sister Queen of Capilano
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Post by Retrovision on Feb 20, 2008 20:38:39 GMT -8
I saw the lunar eclipse an hour ago from downtown Squamish. I couldn't see it from my house due to how close I am to the mountains. But there just happened to be a nice opening between the Chief and the Smoke Bluffs to be able to see it. Lots of other people were out watching it, yet continued to call it a "solar eclipse" You should consider your community lucky, lol; if they didn't bother to care what it technically was they atleast watched it, all I witnessed while watching the formidable celestial event was audible (as always) belligerently ignorant and self-indulged people among a steady flow to and from the legion accross the street from me, lol.
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Post by Mill Bay on Feb 21, 2008 8:53:15 GMT -8
Did anybody luck out to plan a ferry trip to watch the eclipse from... I imagine a route 30 vessel would have provided a good viewing platform. I saw the last half of it from where I was. Apparently the next total eclipse of the moon we will see here, will be in December of 2010.
Now I just want to have a chance to see a good total solar eclipse. I remember one time we watched a partial solar eclipse, but, of course, we didn't go blind... we used my dad's welding lenses to look at the sun.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Feb 21, 2008 9:52:50 GMT -8
We had an amazing view out there in Toronto. Crisp perfectly clear night. I didn't stand and watch the whole thing but would go into our solarium off the kitchen and check progress every five minutes or so. I didn't take pics because the flash reflected off the glass on the roof. Outside the view was through a giant maple so it looked really cool to the eye and you could see it very clearly, but again the branches messed with the flash. On a ferry in the Georgia Strait would have been perfect.
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Post by Mirrlees on Feb 21, 2008 15:17:55 GMT -8
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Post by Mike C on Feb 27, 2008 20:44:23 GMT -8
Merry eclipse, all!
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