Total Lunar Eclipse this Saturday.. Nov 9th

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Applies to most of us... U.S., South America, good part of Europe.. sadly Australia and NZ and the south asian pacific miss out. (but then again, they had that killer solar eclipse a couple of years ago, so my pity has no leaks)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(Doh! almost all of Africa will see it too)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

less visible, but there will also be a total solar eclipse on Nov. 23

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Antarctica FAP!

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

surely the penguins will be in awe in the midst of their shitting fish entrails or whatever they do for leisure.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

They'll all start copulating frenziedly when it goes dark, before coughing and brushing themselves down in an embarrassed manner when the moon comes out again, "uh yeah, just uh, doing my, uh...press-ups"

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)

lunar eclipses are surprisingly boring.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://centaurus.freeservers.com/eclipse.jpg

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Now a Luna eclipse, that would be cool!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 7 November 2003 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Dudes! did you see this?

There is also an official site!

blood-red moon surrounded by the star of david! yaaaaaaah!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 November 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This rather lost my interest when it claimed that the six planets that would align in this way were the Sun, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn, Chiron and the Moon. I also note the lack of diagrams, I assume for the reason that it is all bollocks.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 November 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Anxiously awaiting the Yes song commemorating this event. ;-)

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Here in Berlin we have clear skies tonight. If I lean out of my kitchen window I can see the moon low above the eastern horizon. Pretty moon! Big! It looks normal now, but it should be orange or even black by the time I head down to Cafe Moskau for some nightclubbing.

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

It's gonna be cloudy here.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 8 November 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

obv it's all bollocks but it's pretty funny too.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that this almost falls on a full moon night like the last one did. I plan to spend the evening again in a similar fashion to the last one, although I think I might substitute a mandolin for the guitar this time.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Saturday, 8 November 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that this almost falls on a full moon night like the last one did.

Er, but that's precisely why there'd be the chance of an eclipse in the first place...or do you mean you like the fact that it's not a 'perfect' eclipse as such? In which case, :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, lunar eclipses only happen around full moons, ma friend.. otherwise, ancient astronomers would have been confused as fuck if other moon phases had all these cookie bites happening occasionally..

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:42 (twenty-two years ago)

well, they said it might be showery today, but so far, clear and sunny in seattle.. yay! and we get the eclipse starting in progress at moonrise.. that will be bizarre. full eclipse a little after 5pm pst.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(Finally, not having to get up in pajamas to see a full lunar eclipse for once)

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

You can just go outside buck naked instead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, unless i can make big bucks selling myself off as a donutbitchsicle

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

~~It gets warmer as you suck on it~~ It's a gift rarity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm very proud that we were able to incorporate penguin shit and frozen fellatio into a thread about an innocent astronomical event... and we did it together, through teamwork, faith, and a will to get the right things done.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

We are ILX, we are strong.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

We're 10,000,000 duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuumb and growing

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 November 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

it is too cloudy here! how will I see the apocolypse coming??

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 8 November 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh all that alignment stuff is nonsense, no "mass changes" like that happeneing for at least another 300-400 years, when the vernal equinox really does shift from pisces to aquarius. we've got a ways to go before all that, why do people keep rushing the precession

from the CNN website about the eclipse ->
In ancient times, the phenomenon was believed caused by some unseen monster bloodying the moon, an omen of disaster.

wrong! the dragon's head (rahu, or north node, the point of the ecliptic where the earth's shadow falls on the moon to cause the lunar eclipse ) and dragon's tail (ketu, or south node, the point of the ecliptic where the shadow causes the solar eclipse) in medieval terminology were not "monsters" to the ancient - Lord Rahu was an asura, a demon::pedantically shakes head:: vishnu cut off his head and there's this whole story about why it hates the sun and moon gods and tries to eat them! as they are astrological agents they are still worshipped to this day, but regarded as dark, shadowy figures since literally that's what they are - shadows

eclipses are spiritually inauspicious events on a collective level in tantra, as they signify the univerally male and female principles (sun/moon, also the universal Self and mind) being momentarily overshadowed by darkness

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 9 November 2003 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

is that why ilx has been crap lately?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 9 November 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It's overcast tonight. Fuck.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 9 November 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw it!
It was pretty weird here.
Very fast, thin, windy clouds were passing
And the moon seemed to pulse through them
Like a slow strobe.

It was hard to see what was cloud
And what was eclipse. The dark part
Seemed to wax and wane as the flittery clouds
Flowed by.

The moon flickered and tilted
Like a gyroscope, a spinning coin or slowing top.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 9 November 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The moon is just an advertisement...but for what product?
I was forbidden this query

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Sunday, 9 November 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.

― Momus (Momus), Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw it briefly, the clouds disappered for around 20 minutes, and I watched the moon slowly fade away.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe it was too cloudy here. The moon just disappeared. No orangey colours or anything -- a moonless sky!

― ChrissieH (chrissie1068), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Perfect clear skies for it over the fens, very pretty, very red, too tired to think right now.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 9 November 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The lunar gods have been hookin' me up this year, the clouds split open just in time for me to watch the whole thing just like the one we had this spring. It was cold, but that gave me a reason to bundle up all cozy-like with the boy (who got bored and went inside to watch a DVD about 1/3rd of the way through).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 9 November 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the whole thing from the All Tomorrow Parties parking lot. Sadly the background music was the math rock beer commercial sounds of The Magic Band

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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