The lunar eclipse is over, what are your reports?
Perfectly clear sky, deep red color, see the shadow of the edge of the earth on the surface of the moon, cool way to start a morning.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:39PM
Good earth-shadow during the beginning, nice rusty color. Right as the eclipse was peaking, a single, apparently moon-sized cloud rolled in obstructing the view. Figures. Luckily the cloud moved on and, just a bit before sunrise, was a stunning, full lunar eclipse.
The end.
(Score: 2) by Covalent on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:42PM
I'm in Michigan, and it was clear as a bell. I watched from about half-total through totality. I've seen 4 or 5 lunar eclipses, but this was probably the nicest one. Lots of orange and red before totality. It was not too cold out, either.
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:45PM
I live about a stone's throw from Lake Erie, so I was able to get up a bit early, wander on down to the beachfront, watch it reach totality at around 6:15 over the lake, and hang around with it still eclipsed while the sun came up. It was dicey last night whether I'd be able to see anything, but it was clear during the eclipse itself.
The really unusual part is that you could see the eclipsed moon at the same time as the sun. There's some really interesting light-bending physics involved in making that phenomenon possible.
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(Score: 2, Funny) by Buck Feta on Wednesday October 08 2014, @03:05PM
I have a teething child at home. I slept though the eclipse. It was wonderful.
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(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday October 08 2014, @03:10PM
...in Townsville viewing conditions were excellent, though I couldn't get away from the city lights to get a really good look. I've heard Cairns (which usually has terrible cloud cover) had fantastic visibility too. A friend up there has a telescope - she was quite happy. She's forever complaining about the lousy sky up there. There were warnings that cloud cover could wreck the show across eastern Queensland, but not so at least in these two locations.
(Score: 1) by xorsyst on Wednesday October 08 2014, @03:23PM
I was on the wrong part of the planet, didn't see it.
(Score: 2) by KritonK on Thursday October 09 2014, @11:38AM
I tend to think of it as the right part of the planet, even if I, too, missed the eclipse.
(Score: 3, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday October 08 2014, @03:23PM
Uranus was quite close to the eclipse as well. Easily visible with binoculars.
There is a Moon and Uranus joke in here somewhere. I leave it as an exercise for the reader.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:52PM
Traditionally "Thats no moon..." jokes are followed by goatse links. Back before christmas island NIC took away all our fun.
I suppose the good old days weren't really all that great, but it seemed funny at the time.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:02PM
Woke up to see it at 5AM, looked up and saw nothing but clouds. Went back to bed. Thanks weather.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:20PM
Clear skies here. Unfotunately a large planet blocked my view.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @04:55PM
I go ride a bike every morning and remember last night was close to a full moon.
This morning I was surprised when it was almost completely dark with the dark part being red.
I spent a few minutes watching the remainder go dark.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @06:40PM
Got my 6 year old up just before the full eclipse, told him to look out his window. (I had asked him if he wanted me to do so before.)
He jumped up, looked out the window to see the eclipse, watched it for five seconds or so and asked, "can I go back to sleep now?"
To be fair, I wasn't much better, I looked before the eclipse, played on the computer for 15 minutes, then looked out at the full eclipse and went to bed again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 08 2014, @09:46PM
I was outside with my partner, a telescope with a camera attached, and some binoculars. It was amazing - I could read by the light of the full Moon, and then when about a third of the Moon disappeared it was dark enough that I was stumbling.
Unfortunately, I didn't account for the fact that my 4.5" reflector wouldn't gather enough light for my rather poor astrophotography skills, so I got a few photos but nothing actually worth looking at.
Ah well.