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Lunar Eclipse...NOW!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Totality at 8:10PM EST
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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If you're in Union County, i'm pretty close to you, so i'll go take a gander.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Helsinki, Finland
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A fog like London in 1850 crept up from the Gulf of Finland, right on time.
Keep an eye open for the Taurid meteor shower, if you have visibility.
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Moderator Emeritus  Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Night's Plutonian shore...
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I just went out and checked and the sky is perfectly clear. Looks like someone took a bite out of the moon. I'm at work, so I can't sit and watch the whole thing, but I'll pop back out around 8 to check it out. I wish I had my camera with me. Last time I saw a total eclipse, I got some pretty sweet pictures.
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Nemo me impune lacesset
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: NYC
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i'm all set up to record it with my camcorder. unfortunately, i only have one 60 minute tape, so i'm only going to get from 8 to 9 o'clock. (or i could do from 7:30 to 8:30... which would be better?)
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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I've been watching it, pretty cool!..until the clouds crept up!
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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I'm taking pictures. We'll see if they come out any good.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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It is clear here in Boston, so we should be able to view the Lunar eclipse.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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OMG!! some comet I think hit the moon!! its kinda reddish brown, must be all the dust clouds!!
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally posted by wdlove:
It is clear here in Boston, so we should be able to view the Lunar eclipse.
Yup, looks beautiful here. The sky is perfectly clear and cold. The eclipse is now total, and looks like a copper penny. One of our dogs is all upset for no apparent reason. Anyone know whether dogs react to a lunar eclipses?
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Krakatoa, East of Java
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I've been watching it, but it's been mostly obscured by clouds. 
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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West Coast, can't see it...
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Originally posted by Worst. Episode. Ever.:
obscured by clouds.
Great album.
Mike
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Join Date: May 2002
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Heh. I wondered how long it would take someone to chime in with that reference.
I prefer DSOTM. 
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Taken about 4 minutes ago.
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Nice pic, awaspaas. ^^ What kind of camera do you use?
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Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Night's Plutonian shore...
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Freakin' awesome. It's a nice clear, cold night. Perfect for watching an eclipse. I kind of lost track of time until my boss came looking for me. Oops.
For photos, try a 50 mm lens with a 30 second exposure. Should get some impressive results.
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Nemo me impune lacesset
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: Union County, NJ
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Ok, here's one pic I took. Can't post more..going to see Revolutions.
Mike
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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It's just a 3MP Nikon, nothing special.
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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All clear and happening here in central England.
Almost as cool as the 1999 solar in Cornwall.
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Sat outside in 30-degree F weather at a friend's house in Frederick, MD. Saw it from beginning to totality (about 90 minutes total). Froze my *** off but was totally worth it. Some high clouds early which cleared off around haflway through only to reappear right before totality.  Was a dull brick/copper color but you could see the outline of the moon and the entire surface all covered with this mottled color (like in awaspaas's pic). Got back home by 10:00 PM and it was just about back to a full moon. Very cool to see.
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One should never stop striving for clarity of thought and precision of expression.
I would prefer my humanity sullied with the tarnish of science rather than the gloss of religion.
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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went outside on my rooftop deck in New York City... saw the lunar eclipse over the Empire State building at around 8....
VERY VERY COOL
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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Originally posted by awaspaas:
It's just a 3MP Nikon, nothing special.
I asked because I'm intent upon buying my family a digital camera later this year, and being able to take decent pics at night is one of the things I'd like whatever camera I purchase to be able to do.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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A sorry night for eclipsing here in Texas. Wall to wall clouds, with rain off and on all day. The pics are good cosolation, though.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Cloudy here also... Damnit!
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
All clear and happening here in central England.
Almost as cool as the 1999 solar in Cornwall.
It was almost equally as disapointing for me here as the Cornwall Eclipse was*.
Overnight we had the worlds heaviest cloud cover, combined with Loads of local light pollution and 'Fireworks smog', so you couldn't even see where the moon was in the sky let-a-loan any eclipse.
* Travelled all the way down to Penzance on a specially chartered train, as it was almost bang in the centere of totality, and getting it for the longest. Got off the train to be greeted by an overcast sky with bright patches, this quickly evolved in to heavy rain with heavier showers and solid black clouds, with about 0% chance of seeing any sky. I ended up watching the eclipse on a JumboTron screen at a radio One Roadshow in the pouring rain. I got home and my Mum said the partial eclipse had been amazing .
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