Saturday, March 3 2007: Lunar Eclipse

[D'z Nutz]

Damn it! And my new telescope doesn't arrive until next week :banghead:

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Let's hope the sky stays clear:
http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/city/pages/ab-52_metric_e.html

[civic_stylez]

sweet! stoked for this one... gonna break out the telescope for this!

[ShOwOfF]

Nice, thanks for the heads up. Is there a time period for this, or does the moon remain eclipsed all night?

[gp36912]

dang i dont have equipment for this sort of thing, take some good pics for us nutz.

[Khyron]

Meh, east coast for full effect:

Here in the United States, you have to be in the eastern half of the country to witness totality. At the end of the day on Saturday, go outside and face east.

Khyron

[euro.roma]

nice march 3 is my birthday. Great way to end the night lol.

[msommers]

Renting a 500mm f/4 and a teleconverter seems pretty tempting right now!

[D'z Nutz]

Damn it, I just checked my astro software. Looks like we might barely see the end of the eclipse just as it's coming over the horizon, or not even at all :thumbsdow

[crazydriver]

hmmm sucks being in the west :thumbsdow

[no_joke]

Yeah I was stoked when I heard about this but then I checked the visibility map. Looks like we get the backend (or ass) of the eclipse. A link with map: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3020737.stm

:cry: Oh well, I'll stick my head out the window anyways. Still a free show, right? ;)

[D'z Nutz]

Totallity is at 4:21pm. The moon doesn't rise until almost 50 minutes later, so yeah we won't see anything but the end of it if we're lucky.

Still, if you want to try, look due east right after 5pm.

[nismodrifter]

I'm east coast yoooooooooo, I'll be sure to check it out! Thx for the info.

[toyboy88]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39208000/gif/_39208277_lunar_eclipse2_map203.gif

Thought i'd just post that here. Sucks that we probably won't get a decent view tho :(

[nismodrifter]

Couldn't see shit all here in teh Carib, lots of clouds + rain tonight :(

[D'z Nutz]

Somewhat related to the eclipse. Check out the video:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070303.html

[BlueGoblin]

I was really lucky and got to see the eclipse from Northern Italy - one of the locations where totality was fully visible. Fortunately it was very clear out.

I haven't seen an eclipse like that for years - the blood red of the moon was so striking.