did anyone see the lunar eclipse?

[solgroupie]

i wish i could have seen it, but it was too cloudy where i live. i did see the moon coming up as i was driving home from work and it was specTACular.

[Captain Hygiene]

I thought it was tonight, but it was way too cloudy here last night, anyway.

[Chuck]

It was snowing here, so we couldn't see it.

[torgortega]

Curse you clouds, CURSE YOU!!!

[Afgncaap5]

It was also cloudy where I was. Ah, well, I'll just catch the next solstice eclipse on 2094.

[callipygias]

Dec 21, 2010 14:31:21 GMT -5 Captain Hygiene said:

I thought it was tonight.

You're FIRED!

[Mr. Atari]

It was beautiful here in Denver. I woke up the kids, and we put blankets and pillows out on the deck and watched it.

We started when the shadow was covering about half of the moon, and watched until it was all covered. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience with my 8- and 10- year-olds.

What impressed me the most wasn't the color so much as the effect the shadowed moon had on visual perspective. When the moon is bright, it just looks like another celestial body up there. When it was eclipsed, it looked remarkably closer than anything else in the sky (which, of course, it is). It looked like an old Viewmaster slide. My daughter said it looked like a cocoa puff.

[thephillipe]

It was cloudy here too... and the fact that I fell asleep watching the mole people. ;D

[inlovewithcrow]

cloudy here too...but I tell ya, since I've been doing astronomy with my own scope and binoculars, I've seen a number of these and they are a little dull now. The first one was nice, but they get boring after the third or fourth one. I'm ashamed to admit I feel the same about meteor showers...unless I'm ever lucky enough to see one like the Leonids over Niagara Falls back two centuries ago:





On the other hand, I could look at globular clusters every night for a year, I think. No idea why I find them as exciting...they just SIT there after all