Luna Eclipse, 04.04.2015
I watched the lunar eclipse from the west bedroom's window, even though there was a thin haze of clouds and a tree top in the way. As the moon grew dark, more stars appeared.
I went down stairs and stood out in the driveway, the garage blocking the light from the neighbor's porch and watched the moon blink out. The binoculars were of no help--it just made what I was looking at fuzzier, though it was bigger. The light got smaller and smaller, blinked out for a short moment, then looked like a star that slowly glowed brighter and brighter. I walked out a few yards more to see if I could see more as it came out of the shadow, but I tripped the yard light...oh, hi Debi! You just posted, so you're up too!...so I came in to see what it looked like on the live stream, as the light won't go off for a bit.
Before I went indoors, I looked up at the sky. Where there were no clouds, there were stars, but not as much as there are on a moonless night at 3 a.m. over a lake.
The morning on the moon slowly grew rosier as the white crescent increased. One of the mountains caught the light and glowed like a small star or rather, shone like a piece of glitter that stayed put, and the seas grew gradually, their shorelines darkened as did the ponds and pits, and then faded into flat surfaces as the light filled them and smoothed them over, until finally the news feed showed the moon flat with bright light at the 9:30 to 1:20 positions and pink from 6:30 to 9:30, with their boundaries arced by the moon's geometry. The live-feed from the Griffith Observatory chatter read some tweets, made comments about Leonard Nimoy's death and Star Trek's contribution to today's generation of scientists (didn't mention that the observatory was part of the franchise's history), and answered questions about lunar eclipse schedule in Australia, if the space shuttle would have a video of it, and if lunar eclipses ever happened while the sun rose. "It did on the East coast with this one." The live-feed ended and a video clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson came on, and he started to discuss something else.
I went outside. The sky was brightening, the haze seemed to have increased, until I realized that the stars had faded and most had disappeared as the sun would be up in about an hour and a half. The moon had move more to the north west, and the crescent on its top was that of two or three days before the new moon, and the earth shine glowing on its base. (When the moon is two or three days after the new moon, the sunlight on on the base of the moon when it is in the western sky).
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The cats are amused by my coming and going.
I went down stairs and stood out in the driveway, the garage blocking the light from the neighbor's porch and watched the moon blink out. The binoculars were of no help--it just made what I was looking at fuzzier, though it was bigger. The light got smaller and smaller, blinked out for a short moment, then looked like a star that slowly glowed brighter and brighter. I walked out a few yards more to see if I could see more as it came out of the shadow, but I tripped the yard light...oh, hi Debi! You just posted, so you're up too!...so I came in to see what it looked like on the live stream, as the light won't go off for a bit.
Before I went indoors, I looked up at the sky. Where there were no clouds, there were stars, but not as much as there are on a moonless night at 3 a.m. over a lake.
The morning on the moon slowly grew rosier as the white crescent increased. One of the mountains caught the light and glowed like a small star or rather, shone like a piece of glitter that stayed put, and the seas grew gradually, their shorelines darkened as did the ponds and pits, and then faded into flat surfaces as the light filled them and smoothed them over, until finally the news feed showed the moon flat with bright light at the 9:30 to 1:20 positions and pink from 6:30 to 9:30, with their boundaries arced by the moon's geometry. The live-feed from the Griffith Observatory chatter read some tweets, made comments about Leonard Nimoy's death and Star Trek's contribution to today's generation of scientists (didn't mention that the observatory was part of the franchise's history), and answered questions about lunar eclipse schedule in Australia, if the space shuttle would have a video of it, and if lunar eclipses ever happened while the sun rose. "It did on the East coast with this one." The live-feed ended and a video clip of Neil deGrasse Tyson came on, and he started to discuss something else.
I went outside. The sky was brightening, the haze seemed to have increased, until I realized that the stars had faded and most had disappeared as the sun would be up in about an hour and a half. The moon had move more to the north west, and the crescent on its top was that of two or three days before the new moon, and the earth shine glowing on its base. (When the moon is two or three days after the new moon, the sunlight on on the base of the moon when it is in the western sky).
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The cats are amused by my coming and going.