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zandperl

Eclipse tonight!

Feb 20, 2008 08:03

In case you don't read my other blog, there's a total lunar eclipse tonight visible from central and Eastern US, as well as Western Europe and some other places down South of us all. It starts around 8:40pm (Eastern) and ends around midnight. More info on my other blog here, or via Fred Espenak, NASA's Mr. EclipseAnd this morning I woke up ( Read more... )

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Comments 4

meig February 20 2008, 14:48:10 UTC

I'm hoping it stays clear here. I want to let the boys stay up and watch it. I think Grif especially will find it cool.

zandperl February 20 2008, 14:55:40 UTC

Forecast here is for partially cloudy. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Hrm... semiotic_pirate February 20 2008, 17:40:53 UTC

Now if only the weather cooperates and I can figure out a good place to view it from! We've got partly cloudy predicted during the time period of the eclipse.

Re: Hrm... zandperl February 20 2008, 21:54:24 UTC

The great thing about eclipses is it really doesn't matter where you view it from, so long as you're outside. City, country, hilltop, valley, doesn't matter. Light pollution really doesn't make a difference, nor normal amounts of smog, though fog would.

We've got partially cloudy for the start here, but clearing up during totality. And it depends on what they mean by "partially cloudy" - thick clouds with holes between them is workable, if the holes come at the right times; thin clouds covering the whole sky (i.e., a thick haze) is less good usually.