Total lunar eclipse tonight

[numbercruncher]

The moon is expected to turn anything from a yellowish brown to a blood red in tonight's total lunar eclipse.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=289445


Remember to look skyward after about 8pm (or wait till December 2011 for the next one!)

 

[Mofra]

Saw the yellow moon out running earlier, just seen it as blood red.

Wonder how many will miss the rare event because they're staring at the idiot box?

 

[chops_a_must]

Saw the yellow moon out running earlier, just seen it as blood red.

Wonder how many will miss the rare event because they're staring at the idiot box?

It's raining here. I'm actually quite disappointed I wont be able to see it...

 

[wayneL]

It's raining here. I'm actually quite disappointed I wont be able to see it...

Well it only ever rains on blue moons up here, never on blood moons.

The rain would be welcome though.

Check it out with binoculars if you have them... interesting stuff.

 

[trinity]

http://www.discoverychannelasia.com/eclipse/


Still time to watch it ... rain or shine

 

[Pommiegranite]

Saw the yellow moon out running earlier, just seen it as blood red.

Wonder how many will miss the rare event because they're staring at the idiot box?

What channel is it on? I can't find it.

 

[2020hindsight]

It's raining here. I'm actually quite disappointed I wont be able to see it...

ahhh
rats ( on yor behalf
thank chris for the internet

 

[2020hindsight]

ahhh
rats ( on your behalf
thank chrise for the internet

PS Realist response - (BY WHICH i MEAN , of minimal romantic persuasion..)

!! Just bought two bludy bottles of champagne which I can barely afford !! - just to watch some bludy "brown-out" of the moon. !!! - what a load of bs !!
(lol)

I'd call it anaemic
they’d call it "blood red"
I'm pissed as a parrot
they'd say "enough said " lol

 

[2020hindsight]

Here's a photo from last night ( I take it back, that's anything but anaemic - "coppery pink" ? - wow someone's been lookin up the Dulux colour chart! - why not call it "freezer-floor-after-a-week-away-and-the-power-went-off")

also one from this morning .. (let's call it "coppery green" lol)
actually borat's post #62 on ASF travel thread - northern lights

gee ain't life grand
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/28/2018022.htm

 

[2020hindsight]

lol - good one on the ABC -
bloke leaving the pub last night, didn't know about the eclipse - looked up , - raced back inside seriously alarmed - and yelled to his mates ....
"get under the bar quick !! - Mars is about to hit us..!!"

 

[Duckman#72]

PS Realist response - (BY WHICH i MEAN , of minimal romantic persuasion..)

!! Just bought two bludy bottles of champagne which I can barely afford !! - just to watch some bludy "brown-out" of the moon. !!! - what a load of bs !!
(lol)

I'd call it anaemic
they’d call it "blood red"
I'm pissed as a parrot
they'd say "enough said " lol

LOL 2020.

Yes the "Blood Red" bit made me smile.

There needs to be a more exact colour referencing for occasions like this.

I would have thought that comments such as those below would have been more likely to have occured in backyards around Oz last night:

"Yeah Stan...I'd call it sorta ......reddy..pinky lookin"
"Come have a look at this Darl....the moons turned kinda yellowy-brown"
"Wow....Dad look.... the moon's got dirty"

I don't think many would have said "wow....check out the blood red moon"

But the fact that it wasn't blood red doesn't make it any lesser event.

Unfortunately, thanks to R2D2 and C3PO unless we can see laser beams shooting down from outerspace, or meteorite showers smashing into our atmosphere by the thousand there is a feeling that the general public find it all quite dull. The media try to "sexy" things up too much by saying what it will look like and inevitably people are disappointed when the real thing doesn't stack up like they expected.

I enjoyed it for what it was - hopefully a lot of families took the opportunity to spend a half an hour of family time talking about outspace, how the moon works, how our atmosphere works and the galaxy in general. Unfortunately, uncluttered, clear, time spend just talking to family also sometimes seems like it only appears once every 4 years!!!

Duckman

 

[doctorj]

Here's a fab series of pictures taken by a friend of mine in Sydney. Nice work Raymond!

 

[2020hindsight]

"Wow....Dad look.... the moon's got dirty"
only every 4years

spot on duck -
out of the mouths of kids, lol -
sometimes they are the only ones to call the king naked
then again , if they saw it through a telescopic lens like dj's mate , they'd see it better yes? - magic dj. thanx.

Actually I was jesting when I posted that - I was actually chuffed - only regret that I didn't use binos at least. - the kids went to friend's place where they had a telescope.

I wonder if they even noticed in Beijing ? - given the pollution, and the fact that the program whereby odd-and-even-rego-numbers-alternate-daily has only been going for a week or two

adapting wayne's comment -

but dad, you said "kids off to bed !
but I've got a question for you !!
see mum says it only goes red
now and then ! ? - when the moon is blue?"

When my kids were young , (eldest was almost 3 I spose - cripes he was a funny kid lol) anyways, I took em up to the Blue Mountains - he was really excited to be going to the "blue mountains" - serious anticipation etc - slept on the way there, then when we arrived he starts talking 100 to the dozen as usual , ... but expressing his disappointment ...
" hey daddy! you said these mountains were blue !!"

 

[2020hindsight]

here's one i took
mind you, I think I spilled some booze in the camera ...

 

[vvguru]

Have you guys noticed on Wiki:

"The next solar eclipse takes place on September 11, 2007", is it a sign? will it be of some relevance to stockmarket or just me superstitious?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse

 

[2020hindsight]

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=289445
Remember to look skyward after about 8pm (or wait till December 2011 for the next one!)

thanks nc - didn't realise that -
although it obviously makes sense that these eclipses would "congregate about periods when the sun, earth and moon get on the same plane."

( I just wish mankind was "on the same plane" with Mother Nature. )

what an incredible coincidence!! 9/11.
no doubt, in some deep dark corner of Pakistan somewhere, Bin Laden will take the credit

 

[Joules MM1]

lol, last post 2007

viewing of the eclipse over aus viewable online: http://www.space.com/18407-total-solar-eclipse-australia-sun-observing.html

The total solar eclipse will occur on Tuesday, Nov. 13, but it will actually be Nov. 14 local time for observers south of the equator. The eclipse's partial phases will be visible from all of Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, as well as part of Antarctica and a far-southern slice of South America. The total solar eclipse, however, can only be seen only from a narrow corridor running southeast across Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia.