Author Topic: A lunatic expreience :P (Read 1667 times)

SamSeeSam · « **on:** March 02, 2007, 05:57:39 pm »

Well, tomorrow night there is going to be a lunar eclipse. Just thought I'll tell heh.
The main reason I posted this is that it's going to happen on saturday night. So you might have a chance to see it.
My first one too (Hope I stay awake till four in the morning

). The moon goes from white to red in a lunar eclipse. Hope you see it lol
This will be partly visible in all the continents. So that's another plus point.

Timings: (UT = universal time)

Penumbral Eclipse Begins:   20:18:11 UT
Partial Eclipse Begins:     21:30:22 UT
Total Eclipse Begins:     22:44:13 UT
Greatest Eclipse:     23:20:56 UT
Total Eclipse Ends:      23:57:37 UT
Partial Eclipse Ends:     01:11:28 UT
Penumbral Eclipse Ends:     02:23:44 UT

http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/OH2007.html (also shows places where full eclipse will be visible)

More info on lunar eclipses:
http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/LEprimer.html

Cheers

J a M e S · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2007, 06:41:17 pm »

ut ??????

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2007, 06:48:34 pm »

hmmmm International standard time....
the greenwich one lol

Cheers

KM · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2007, 07:08:41 pm »

UT is what people say when they refer to GMT but want to pretend that it's some globally neutral thing rather than admitting that england is the center of the world

...of course not to be confused with UTC, which is a different time standard

J a M e S · « **Reply #4 on:** March 03, 2007, 06:45:29 pm »

bugga.. missed it -.-

SamSeeSam · « **Reply #5 on:** March 03, 2007, 07:15:57 pm »

Missed it?
It's going to happen about 70~80 mins from the time i'm makng the post...

Cheers

J a M e S · « **Reply #6 on:** March 03, 2007, 07:52:13 pm »

i didnt read that!!! i went for a ride...

Max™ · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2007, 12:10:55 am »

well where i am is a clear sky, half the street lights are out so i got a great view and it is bright red,
as its now just after midnight in uk it now has a white edge on one side,

KM · « **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2007, 07:01:08 am »

not such a clear sky here last night...

* KM removes soggy socks after walk home

so when i did go outside for a look i saw absolutely nothing, except for nice clouds, although at the time it wasn't raining, the rain was saved for when i finished work and had to walk a couple of miles home