Tonight, North America will be able to see the full moon rise in a total eclipse - that is, of course, if the weather cooperates.
Best time for viewing is betwee 5:45 and 7:00 PM. The direction will be to the east, opposite of the setting sun.
For more information on this eclipse, click here and here (on the NASA site, check out the "solar eclipse" that someone on the moon would see tonight - it's a simple animation, but it's still cool).
For information on eclipses in general, click here and here.
Did you watch? What did you think?
22 comments:
Much too cloudy...
7:04 update...
It's been cloudy and the moon has yet to make an appearance above the eastern horizon - at least as much as I can see through and over the trees. It is just about dark now, though so hopefully, in the next few minutes, I'll get to see SOMETHING.
Otherwise I'm waiting until the next one on August 28th!
7:15 update...
I can see it!
Unfortunately, totality has passed, and it is in the partial phase. It's rising, looking a little like a waning crescent, but as it moves out of the shadow it gets fuller and fuller - that's a kind of cool effect.
Not the best lunar eclipse I've seen, but interesting timing.
2-for-1 viewing...
If you look on the opposite side of the sky from the moon, you will see a really bright and pretty star - that's no star, that's the planet Venus!
Mrs. Q.
Clouds... glorious clouds! How they... block the view! Well, I missed it anyway, we forgot and remembered 15 minutes late, when my dad mentioned the moon in the car.
It's sort of par for the course for us this year, Nick - every celestial event seems to have been marred by the weather...
Mrs. Q.
ok so i was pretty freaking mad because i like waited outside forever and nothing but clouds were in my veiw. rather depressing is it not?
gaby
*rant*rant*rant* but whatever i suppose i have to get used to this...just watch next time something really cool happens i wont be there to witness it, or the weather will kill my excitement, again.
gaby
OH NO! I missed it~ I was a bit late, but even if I was on time, the clouds would've been in the way...
By the way, that was me [Nile] up there^
Guess wat, i saw all of it!!!- ha-ha it was really cool!
Yah figures, I missed it too. I don't think this has anything to do with the eclipse, but earlier that day there were some pretty wierd clouds (one looked like a giant crater) in the sky over near Jekyll Island.
What did it look like?
Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the lunar eclipse because for some reason when I was in the North GA mountains, the moon was blocked off by trees until like 8ish. I bet it was really fascinating back in Marietta though.
-Bethany Crooks
Oh, and the positive side to this is that I had the chance to experience the lunar eclipse back in fall of 2004 with Mr. Stillwell's kids with telescopes and such. The moon was a very dull red color and then it slightly faded back to white like a windshield wiper. Very cool (:
-Bethany Crooks
Well, the lunar eclispe looked pretty much just like bethany descibed above but the moon was a really dark red. more black than red though.
Today i learned about Black Holes and Stars. There are two main processes feuling most stars. They are Nuclear fusion and Gravity. I also learned that Gravity dominates. When gravity dominates the star becomes unstable and starts to collapse.
Finally, A black hole is where matter collapses. It collapses to infinite gravity and density.
Today i learned about black holes and stars.
Jessica Lewis
3/14/07
I completely missed it. Crud.
i have learned many things aout the things that occur outer space. One of the main things that i've learned would be the way a star is born,its life,death,and the experince a star go through. When a sta is first born it is nkown as a nebula nebulas are made when nuclear fusion explodes and then from that is what makes a star. When a star is first born is when the star has most of its energy and fuel. A stars energy is abl to last for over a billion years. When stars die out is when they lose energy,but when the stars lose its energy is when it becomes a white dwarf, and when the white dwarf star loses its energy also is when it becomes a black dwarf. This is when this star had no energy at all. Most of the star of this known galaxy live for billions of years until its energy runs out.
by: Chidozie Nwachukwu
I learned that If a spaceship flies into a blackhole,it appears as though it didnt.When it reaches the horizon,it appears as though they never got to it.I saw what the black whole looks like also.i also learned thatstars have phases throughout their lives....I NEVER KNEW THAT!!! But anyway,i also learned that some planets that are really old arent that hot anymore.
~Fatimah H. Salam!!!
i couldn't catch the whole thing
wow. a medley of comments on the wrong post and lunar eclipse comments!
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