Lunar Eclipse tomorrow night
 

I have seen a full luinar eclipse in houston about 9 years ago. it was amazingly beautiful. the moon turned bright cranberry red as the earth's shadow overtook it. look for it tomorrow people!

The moon begins moving into Earth's shadow at 7:43 pm. Totality begins 78 minutes later at 9:01 pm and lasts for 51 minutes.

A total eclipse of the Moon occurs during the night of Wednesday, February 20/21, 2008. The entire event is visible from South America and most of North America (on Feb. 20) as well as Western Europe, Africa, and western Asia (on Feb. 21). During a total lunar eclipse, the Moon's disk can take on a dramatically colorful appearance from bright orange to blood red to dark brown an (rarely) very dark gray

An eclipse of the Moon can only take place at Full Moon, and only if the Moon passes through some portion of Earth's shadow. Th shadow is actually composed of two cone-shaped parts, one nested inside the other. The outer shadow or penumbra is a zone where Earth blocks some (but not all) of the Sun's rays. In contrast, the inner shadow or umbra is a region where Earth blocks all direct sunlight from reaching the Moon.

If only part of the Moon passes through the umbra, a partial eclipse is seen. However, if the entire Moon passes through the umbra shadow, then a total eclipse of the Moon occurs.

Thanks for the heads up!!

it's supposed to be fucking cloudy. fucking hell.

I wish it was like the old days and people would riot during an eclipse thinking it was the end of the world.

Will the Illuminati finally will show themselves?

I don't think that was for a lunar eclipse.

The time is between 3.01am and 3:51am GMT by the way. And yes, it is meant to be cloudy. Although tonight the full moon here in the UK is absolutely stunning.

I'll be setting my alarm for Thursday morning.

WHOA!!! POOKIE, welcome back.

WHOA!! ✌➬, who the hell are you?!!??

No one, just symbols. I use to write on the Ask Pookie thread.

A change of name eh? I'll have to read your posts and guess, I guess?

well I was just watching Osama I mean Obama make a speech on CNN, does tha count?

What a disappointment. The sky was completely covered in clouds here. Anybody else have more luck?

In France it was 4am but I woke up for it, there were lots of clouds but still I saw it, it was beautiful :)

The conspiracy nets were full of chatter about the coincidence that while this eclipse was happening on the other side of the planet the Navy was shooting missles at a "satellite".

You mean the navy might have made the eclipse happen?

Much as I like a good conspiracy theory, that one's stretching it a bit. Especially as the US military were making such a song and dance about the satellite.

i missed the clipse :(

clouds covered the great state of texas.



fuck.

now I gotta wait until december 2010

lunar eclipses are very meh.

Then we're honoured that you took the trouble to tell us so.

I love them. when you see the moon eclipsed by the earth;'s shadow you can really see that it is just a giant sphere flowting in space, just out there. it looks beautiful and strikes me with awe and grandeur, but then again I have a real name and am not afraid to share it. ha!

yeah it was too cloudy here as well.

:(

I saw it.
It was pretty majestic.

solar eclipses are interesting because of the solar corona, but moon eclipses... they are not worthy of me lifting my ass from bed.

If you guys got to see it then you also saw Jupiter and regulus (the central star in constellation LEO) on either side of the moon!

solar eclipses cannot be looked at directly though. lunar ones you can smoke a large fattie boombattie and gaze upon it for hours.

hours of scout lameness.

you jaded bitter asshole!!11!!!one!!!omg!!!!

i sense sulking.

No the conspiracy nets were saying the Navy was shooting down some interstellar object (alien) that was using the eclipse as cover.

Hey I'm just repeating what I read...

and they would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

the US put up that spy satteliote last year, meaning it has the top level of technology in it, top secret shit,and it malfunctioned almost instantly. it has been useless for a year. it has taken this long for it's orbit to degrade.

they were for sure destroying it so no one could get theuir hands on the technology
the fuel would have exploded in re-entry like a motherfucker. that was a red herring to appease the stupid sheep.

That satellite was going 17,000 mph, it's amazing that the navy was able to hit it even though the missile was going 22,000 mph, just incredible.

not so much.

aegis cruisers are floating ballastics computers.

just sayin'.

The fuel tank aboard the satellite was believed strong enough to survive the fiery re-entry through the atmosphere...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/21cnd-satellite.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnn lx=1203614829-BllMVXyimLCLR9tyK5VAbQ


...if you want to claim that's just the story the pentagon gave the public, ....be my guest. you have a point about protecting the technology. just sayin...

Supposedly there have been plenty of other falling satellites with fuel but the pentagon didn't need to shoot them down. I think this is a response to the Chinese action of last year and a test of our space weaponry. If we were to engage China in a war, say over Taiwan, I suspect the satellites will be one of the first targets. They're sitting ducks, they just happen to be sitting in space revolving in predictable orbits.

the fuel is toxic, but so is nearly everything that nuclear submarines dump into th deep oceans.

the technology was the crucial part I think. and there is nothing wrong with that at all.

but was it really technology or alien body parts?

DISCUSS

[edit: if *I* was going to hide alien body parts, a spy-sat would be the place I'd put them]

if *you* were a robot, where would you hide yr 2029 AI tech?