Total Lunar Eclipse in the U.S. Thursday

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Not an F'in word here?

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

We laugh at you and your penumbras.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, it mostly for the eastern half of the states, who'll get the see the moon rise, then eclipse for 53 minutes, then go back. Given all the east coasters here, I'm disappointed in you guys for not mentioning a thing.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The west gets to see it in eclipse already at moonrise, which kinda sucks because the twilight will hide the cool maroon shading effect. Ah well.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hadn't heard a thing about it, when is it?

― hstencil, Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

And of course, this is a U.S. only eclipse. Canada declined the invitation due to rigorous planning of their impending invasion.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

How much does this cost?

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

will you just go ahead and tell us when it is already? jeez.

― hstencil, Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Tsk. The moon ain't no sellout.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)

All ya needs to know here

Starts around 10pm Eastern time.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the guest list situation?

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh damn, looks like it's going to be partially cloudy tomorrow night. I don't want to miss this, all ha-ha aside.

― slutsky (slutsky), Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:45 (twenty-two years ago)

donut bitch, what are the odds on clear skies in the emerald city? weather permitting, i look out my window.

― j.a.e., Thursday, 15 May 2003 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, even with clear skies, the emerald city's missing the best part of the eclipes... the moon will rise already in total eclipse, and the twilight would be too bright to see all the cool shading effects on the moon, anyway. shrug. That said, I checked Yahoo weather, and it's showers showers showers til Saturday... sob.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Basically the Eastern time zone in North America, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and all of South America will see the entire thing. The central and west will get see the eclipse in progress.

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks, Mr./Ms. Bitch, I didn't know about this. Going to dust off my telescope right now.

― Mr. Lovebucket, Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)

More importantly, as noted on another thread, thursday is the all claymation Conan O'Brien!!!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and that Matrix thing too

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The all claymation Matrix?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

keanu vs claymation keanu: spot the difference

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

There was one on view here in Melbourne a couple of years ago. I found it entrancing. The moon briefly appeared totally different from the way we normally see it, much more three dimensional, like a rubber ball that had been thrown up into the air and got stuck.

― Amarga (Amarga), Thursday, 15 May 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

keanu vs claymation keanu: spot the difference

The Claymation one can act?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 15 May 2003 05:04 (twenty-two years ago)

and the oscar goes to:

http://fp.entertainmentearth.com/AUTOIMAGES/NT28032lg.jpg

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 15 May 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

UK insomniacs can see the eclipse in the early hours, just before the moon sets.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 15 May 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

lunar eclipses are not that impressive. maybe it's having seen three, but they i) go on forever ii) happen every ten minutes and iii) are generally not worth making much of an effort to catch, but are great if you wander out of a nightclub at three in morning and go "Fuck me, someone's taken a bite out of the moon".

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 15 May 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Its even better after the eclipse when the moon is red.
Sadly we have forecasted overcast skies tonight in the Big Smoke.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 15 May 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to go stretch-out on the beach and listen to the cries of gulls and watch the sea turtles come-up to nest while also watching the eclipse.

Sadly, I am single tonight and will be sans cuddling partner.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

TONIGHT IS ALSO A FULL MOON!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

nick, i kiss you

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 15 May 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The impressive thing about a lunar eclipse is not the part where the sun's shadow creeps across the moon but the part where it totally covers it and then you are just looking at the moon lit up be reflected light.

― Amarga (Amarga), Thursday, 15 May 2003 22:53 (twenty-two years ago)

It's raining in the Washington area, so I have no chance of seeing it.

Of course, I'm already scheduled to work this evening, so it's not like I particularly care. And I'm ambivalent on seeing the Matrix, but yeah, I'd totally go for a claymation Matrix.

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 15 May 2003 22:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy cow, I can see the moon perfectly from my window. It begins!

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The eclipse is being accompanied by the sound of singing Hasids in the yeshiva across the way. How eerie.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone better take photos for us poor southern hemisphere types!

I still regret missing the blood moon of a couple years ago. One of those rare total lunar ecplises or something, anyway I missed it.

Slutsky, that sounds really cool :)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 May 2003 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

now i will play Tahid

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Friday, 16 May 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to try and get some red-moon eclipse action on tape. Maybe I'll put some of it on the internet or something. I hear that's quite the thing to do these days.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 01:21 (twenty-two years ago)

It's nearly fully eclipsed. (end of report)

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 02:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I got to see a little of the second half just a few minutes ago (the moon has just kinda risen here..) Very beeyootiful. Even in the emerald city, partial dreams can come true.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 May 2003 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it was really nice. I zoomed in like crazy with my camera and I could see all the detail and the colour was very vivid. It was neat.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a early evening ocean haze here in Long Beach that was making totality rather hard to see. But once the moon just peeked out from under the Earth's shadow it was high enough in the sky to clear the haze and just be absolutely spectactular.

In retrospect I wish I fished my telescope out of the garage, but there's barely any room left here on the roof for anything. However, here's a nicely overexposed featureless pixelated photo. I need to get a new camera adapter for the scope.

http://www.quartzcity.net/~chris/blogpicts/200305lunareclipse.jpg

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Friday, 16 May 2003 06:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, but what must it be like to be on the MOON when this happens... Carl Sagan, get out of your goddamn grave and answer my question.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 16 May 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, that sounds good.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 16 May 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I couldn't see it last night. It was cloudy and raining.

― Mandee, Friday, 16 May 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I was busy roaming through the woods, scratching my chest hair.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 16 May 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And this is different from any other night how?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't nude.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow. The view from my porch last night = the moon front and center, no clouds to block it out. Plus the moon was hella bright pre-eclipse. I got to watch the light slowly drift until it was gone, and then the moon sat nekkid in the sky...I was quite inspired by this image. Then it slowly began to collect a glow again, but it was all orangy/red...VERY cool. I wish I had a camera with which I could have documented this.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted to document it myself, but the damn dog ate my USB Cable, so I couldn't upload the pics. There's another one in November.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 16 May 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll see if I can't make some stills from the stuff I shot. They'll probably look like shit, but maybe I can get one or two good ones.

― slutsky (slutsky), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I was singing & playing geetar during the whole thing, and about halfway through writing a new song whose only lyrics were "naked moon/hideaway right in front of our eyes/to see you without the coat of light/tonight/luna/naked moon" (with each vowel-sound drawn out super-long) I thought "I hope all those wonderful ILXors" are watching this...then I realized I was singing the word "luna", and thought about Luna, and realized she prob'ly didn't get to see it cuz of that whole West coast thing, and then I felt kinda sad. Then I looked back up at the moon and forgot all that sad nonsense.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw. :-) We could see it out here, fret not, but it sounds like you got the better show.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I was singing "bark at the moon"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I missed the whole thing, but there's still hope.

Two weeks after the May 15-16 total lunar eclipse, a solar eclipse will occur on May 31. The annular phase of the solar eclipse will be visible from northern Scotland, Iceland and southern Greenland.

Would that I were jet-set. I would be off to Iceland to see a total eclipse. While listening to Sigur Ros, of course.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I was really amazed at it; I'm quite the fan of celestial events (meteor showers, novae, etc. = my aesthetic ambrosia), and I was expecting maybe a little peak at it, not the full-on watch-the-whole-thing-from-beginning-to-end-unfettered-by-other-occurrances spectacle I got.

What was really weird though was that, as I thought to myself about how well forces far beyond my control had lined up (about the half-way point of the light-be-gone! phase) a VERY LARGE fire broke out about a mile away, which I could see from my home. Sirens from all directions, fire & smoke on the horizon, etc, etc. There was so much visible from my porch right then; the full-moon-eclipse, the fire in the distance, as well as the park across the street from my house (physically a valley w/ a creek at the bottom) full of fog & mist. I kinda couldn't believe the convergence of images going on around me!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 15:32 (twenty-two years ago)

it was a nice full moon last night. is it the pink moon in april? or may?
anyways, clouds eclipsed the eclipse.

― kephm, Friday, 16 May 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It was a little overcast here, but I went and sat on the roof and watched it anyway. The red was a little eerie, and that coupled with the ink black darkness up on my roof (ok, plus I smoked up) made me half expect to see the undead roaming the neighborhood.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 May 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

then I realized I was singing the word "luna", and thought about Luna, and realized she prob'ly didn't get to see it cuz of that whole West coast thing

it's funny 'cause when I looked at the moon and it was reddish, it made me think of "Pink Moon" and then you, nick.

GOOMH!

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I played/sang "Pink Moon" last night, to, of all things, a pink moon!

My head. Get out of it. Please.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll get out of yours if you get out of mine.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 16 May 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

These things always make me fear the Apocalypse. I no longer practice religion but Revelations is such scary, sticky stuff. I'll never be able to get it gone, gone, gone out of my head. Though I know it is just a shadow and not really blood.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 16 May 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Obviously it didn't help that I had THE FEAR last night when I saw it. Normally I adore beautiful sights in the sky. I think the absolute luckiest and most beautiful night of my life happened over a year ago in April. I just spent a beautiful night enjoying typically favored activities with an amazing man --- we stepped outside for some fresh air and the sky was awash with thick, hazy streaks of blue and green and burgundy. The northern lights, in Southestern Idaho! They covered the entire sky, too, coming to a sort of dip in the center, like the sky's bellybutton. We stared at it for hours until the sun rose. Definitely the best night of my life.

― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 16 May 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

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