Lunar Eclipse this Saturday (11/8)

[Bill From Yorktown]

should be a good one:

Info and Timetable (http://www.space.com/spacewatch/lunar_eclipse_2_031031.html#stages)

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time to scare some kids that you can make the moon disappear!

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[Tall_James]

time to scare some kids that you can make the moon disappear!

"SPACE MONKEYS ARE EATING THE MOON! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!"


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[MHasegawa]

For me, it's either solar or nothin...

Defeat leads me to anger...anger that leads me to victory!
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[high fly]

Make sure not to look directly at it.

What you do is get a cardboard box and punch a little hole in one side....

" and they ask me why I drink"

[JustJon]

Make sure not to look directly at it.

What you do is get a cardboard box and punch a little hole in one side....

So that way, you can't see shit looking up or down.

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[ChrisTheCop]

The weather says clear for saturday and sunday, so this should be cool. I'll be on the roof of my precinct from 8-9 in a lawnchair, being served iced tea by some random female cop. (It's good to be the boss). Thanks for the info Bill.

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[TheMojoPin]

I'll be on the roof of my precinct from 8-9 in a lawnchair, being served iced tea by some random female cop.

NOTE TO SELF: Commit wanton acts of criminality from 8-9. Laugh and touch myself from 9-10.

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[Bill From Yorktown]

The weather says clear for saturday and sunday, so this should be cool. I'll be on the roof of my precinct from 8-9 in a lawnchair, being served iced tea by some random female cop. (It's good to be the boss). Thanks for the info Bill.


No prob Chris. Though not as spectacular as a solar eclipse, lunar ones can be pretty cool - I've seen a blood red moon one year that was soooooo creepy it was great.

btw I've only seen 1 solar one, and it was a partial. The thing I learned that day is that any source of pinpoints create an image - the overlapping leaves on the trees left little crescent images on the ground - too cool.

I hope my kid enjoys it tonight - he's only 2 1/2 but knows "moona" and says hi and goodnight to her - but for some reason only when she's full or near full.

Go figure.

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[TheMojoPin]

but knows "moona"

"I like to sing-ah/About the moon-ah and the June-ah and the spring-ah..."

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[SatCam]

There was that solar eclipse on christmas a few years ago.

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[TheMojoPin]

We've had Christmas since then.

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[Mike Teacher]

There was that solar eclipse on christmas a few years ago.


Yep, a nice partial, and I cant Find the damn pictures I took of it. They cam out pretty good, and between the 902833928 other photos, i'll find it.

Cant remember when but it had to be between 93-95... May? June?? Because it's when I was teaching in central NJ; and me being the astronomy nerd I was, I buy, out of pocket; 50 pairs of eclipse glasses. Only a buck a piece, but they were the real deal; excellent but cheap filters.

Anyway, I'm SO psyched that morning, because the weather is Great; and I get to school; got the telescope in the Trunk; fuck, how about an actual, real science event?

And I get in and I get the news: No. Nobody at all is even being allowed out then because they are afraid kids will stare at the sun and get hurt. I begin to explain that I do this [fuck, I had just designed the Astronomy Curriculum for the school] and know this, and I can see in 2 seconds there's no way this non-tenured teacher is going outside.

I was fucking LIVID.

Imagine: You're teaching a high school science class, and outside, a Wonderful Rare thing is happening. And I can't take my kids out to see it. At one point I'm like fuck it, I'll take the Hit, so I grab an optical flat mirror, go outside, and try to project the sun into the class.

Of course it works; they can see on the wall the sun with a big bite out of it; and I can't friggin let them outside to see it.

Is the frustration coming through?

Prolly cuz also my good eyepiece is missing so the pictures I hoped to take and post here may not happen.

It's true!! These things make people NUTS!!!!!

PS: I left the school the next year. Right after I got tenured. Seeya! Ha!

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