View Full Version : Eclipse...not the movie...no not the car either
Bob The Mercenary
12-20-2010, 08:52 PM
Just in case anyone didn't know, there's going to be a total lunar eclipse tonight, starting at around 1:15am EST, getting total around 2:40. Considering it's one of those things that happen only once every 400 years or so, I thought you'd all like to know. What makes it so rare is that this one will be occurring on the same day as the Winter Solstice AND a meteor shower.
Hoping to get some good pics tonight.
Bells
12-20-2010, 09:05 PM
Stupid question but i forgot my basic science right now and am feeling a tad too lazy to look it up. Is this visible Globaly?
Wigmund
12-20-2010, 09:07 PM
The North-West Hemisphere gets the best view.
http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/2010/December/101219/101220-coslog-map-1130a.grid-6x2.jpg
Aldurin
12-20-2010, 09:14 PM
So this means that now is the time to shoot the moon down using the cover of night to hide the results?
akaSM
12-20-2010, 09:46 PM
Thanks for the heads up, I'll watch this tonight, also, the moon is big today, and has an interesting yellow color :3
Token
12-20-2010, 09:50 PM
So this means that now is the time to shoot the moon down using the cover of night to hide the results?
Kid, if you don't already know the answer to that insanely obvious question, I'm not going to tell you.
bluestarultor
12-20-2010, 10:30 PM
Kid, if you don't already know the answer to that insanely obvious question, I'm not going to tell you.
The answer is no, because lunar eclipses mean the moon turns red. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/Troy_Star/smilies/smug.gif
Archbio
12-20-2010, 10:31 PM
Did you know that, unlike with solar eclipses, looking directly at lunar eclipses pose no danger?
/obvious stuff learned from the radio.
Ryanderman
12-20-2010, 10:34 PM
CLOUDS!!!!
Bob The Mercenary
12-20-2010, 10:36 PM
CLOUDS!!!!
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6dP4cZLS3Jk/TOMxzZj-GGI/AAAAAAAAAG4/PoKmaxA3UBs/s1600/rageguy.jpg
akaSM
12-20-2010, 10:41 PM
The answer is no, because lunar eclipses mean the moon turns red. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b392/Troy_Star/smilies/smug.gif
So, is that the cause of the nice yellow color?
Gregness
12-20-2010, 10:52 PM
Yahoo news was saying the eclipse is tomorrow. Do we have confirmation one way or the other?
Edit: err, okay so since it starts at 2:40am EST that would put it on tuesday technically.
Aldurin
12-20-2010, 11:32 PM
Whatever, the meteor storm is in place and I'm gonna blow me up a damn moon.
Wigmund
12-20-2010, 11:33 PM
Tuesday Morning around 12:30am CST is when the Moon enters the Penumbra, it exits the Penumbra around 4am CST.
I'm not going to get a lot of sleep tonight.
greed
12-21-2010, 12:36 AM
CLOUDS!!!!
We had a total lunar eclipse right where I am a few years back, it was cloudy and overcast all night I kept hopinh to catch glimpses of it but to no avail. Then just as the eclipse reached it's peak, the clouds parted directly above me and there it was. It was pretty fucking incredible.
rpgdemon
12-21-2010, 12:39 AM
So, is that the cause of the nice yellow color?
What it is, is the only light that reaches the moon is filtered through the earth's atmosphere, and lights it red. THINGS I LEARNED FROM WIKIPEDIA.
And yeah, don't worry about clouds. It's snowing here. They happen like once a year or two.
Wigmund
12-21-2010, 12:57 AM
I lucked out tonight.
There's clouds, but it's only a hazy layer so I can see the moon just fine.
Now to go outside and freak out the others in my apartment complex as I spend the next 4 hours or so watching this.
Hopefully, there will also be a couple of bright meteors from the Ursid shower that will show up through the clouds.
Aerozord
12-21-2010, 02:21 AM
I'm suprised we aren't getting any doomsayers about something so rare
edit: and now total cloud cover, fan-freakin-tastic
does give the clouds this ominous red tint though
Bob The Mercenary
12-21-2010, 02:37 AM
Yay! Been watching it for the last half hour, went from 2/3 total to just about total right now. Not a cloud in the sky and it's incredibly bright. There's a lot of trees in my front yard so it's good its trajectory takes it over my driveway.
akaSM
12-21-2010, 02:40 AM
wow, the moon looks weird o_o
POS Industries
12-21-2010, 02:42 AM
100% cloud cover here, because Ohio's gonna make damn sure I can't enjoy a celestial phenomenon ever.
But you kids have fun.
Viridis
12-21-2010, 02:42 AM
Clouds rolled in here, too.
Aerozord
12-21-2010, 02:43 AM
100% cloud cover here, because Ohio's gonna make damn sure I can't enjoy a celestial phenomenon ever.
But you kids have fun.
and did you notice the clouds rolled in like, just as it was about to go total. Just to tease you that maybe you can see it.
Bob The Mercenary
12-21-2010, 02:54 AM
http://www.wpbt2.org/stargazer/
Live webcast for those of you who got hit with http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/BobtheMercenary/imagesCA09K4R2.jpg cover.
Sithdarth
12-21-2010, 03:36 AM
Considering it's one of those things that happen only once every 400 years or so,
Damn I must be getting old cause I've seen at least two of them.
Professor Smarmiarty
12-21-2010, 03:49 AM
Three for me.
POS Industries
12-21-2010, 04:05 AM
He's referring to the eclipse happening on the winter solstice, which is an exceedingly rare thing. Of course, what day it happens on doesn't really make a lick of difference, as far as I'm aware, but apparently the TV has been making a huge fuckass deal about it all day.
Sithdarth
12-21-2010, 04:09 AM
Pfft. Its just the longest night of the year. Assigning any importance to a Lunar eclipse happening now is like thinking picking your birth date is a sure way to win the lottery.
Professor Smarmiarty
12-21-2010, 04:12 AM
It might mean the end times are coming
Aldurin
12-21-2010, 12:40 PM
It might mean the end times are coming
The end times have been coming since the beginning of time, it's no big deal that we actually take notice just now.
Flarecobra
12-21-2010, 12:44 PM
Couldn't see a damn thing because of rain clouds.
Hanuman
12-21-2010, 12:50 PM
OMG it's starting, wait a sec, wait a sec, YAAAAY
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/education/teachers/images/enlarge/teachers_factfile_rainclouds.jpg
Karrrrrrrrrrrresche
12-21-2010, 12:53 PM
The end times have been coming since the beginning of time, it's no big deal that we actually take notice just now.
Except we've been noticing since before history was recorded, and up till this point every single human being who predicted the end of the world was going to happen has either not had their claim been tested, or has been proven wrong.
Aldurin
12-21-2010, 12:58 PM
Then that leaves only one solution, we have to destroy the world. All of the waiting is driving me nuts anyway.
Hanuman
12-21-2010, 01:19 PM
Then that leaves only one solution, we have to destroy the world. All of the waiting is driving me nuts anyway.
Join christianity and embrace the rapture concept.
Professor Smarmiarty
12-21-2010, 01:23 PM
Except we've been noticing since before history was recorded, and up till this point every single human being who predicted the end of the world was going to happen has either not had their claim been tested, or has been proven wrong.
what about the time it ended then started again really reall fast?
rpgdemon
12-21-2010, 02:18 PM
what about the time it ended then started again really reall fast?
That was more of the times stalling out than ending.
Professor Smarmiarty
12-21-2010, 02:34 PM
Nah it ended and restarted. I know this cause everything was slightly different. I can tell by looking.
akaSM
12-21-2010, 03:04 PM
Join christianity and embrace the rapture concept.
Bisoshock is a christian game? D:. At least it's better than Super Noah's Ark 3D :dance:
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