Lunar Eclipse

[dedndave]

about 23 hours from the time of this post...
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OH2011.html#LE2011Dec10T
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2011-Fig06.pdf

and a java applet...
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/JLEX/JLEX-NA.html

[dedndave]

pretty cool
i can see the moon slowly disappearing in the west as the sun rises in the east  :P

actually, the darkened part of the moon has an orange tint
sunrise isn't for another 35 minutes or so

[Bill Cravener]

Here's the one I hope I'm around to see Dave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_August_21,_2017

[dedndave]

yah - that one looks great, Bill
i remember seeing one like it when i was a kid - that must have been the one in 1963

[jj2007]

We had a total solar eclipse on 11 August 1999. I saw the corona for a second, then a big fat cloud obscured it. Nice anyway.
The lunar eclipse tonight was, ehm, very partial. About 5% of the moon was obscured.

[Bill Cravener]

The thing is even if its totally cloudy when the US 2017 eclipse comes it will get nearly black out during daylight hours. That will seem strange! :eek

I hope its a bright sunny day though so I can make me up one of those cardboard lunar eclipse viewing thingies. :bg