http://www.space.com/spacewatch/080215- ... guide.html I just went out and had a look. It's perfectly clear here in Buffalo after snowing all last night. You can just start to see it happen, should be a full eclipse around 10:05-10:10PM EST.
weird! i just said to skylar "the moon looks so cool! come look at it! " haha he then told me about the eclipse.
Yeah, it's been cloudy in the SF Bay area as well... I got to see a portion of the moon being blocked out, but then it went behind a cloud.
Crummy pic, crummy camera, but here's the view from Texas as the eclipse was just beginning. Moon began to turn a beautiful orange/red.
Surprisingly it's crystal clear in Portland - watched it for about 20 minutes. The Earth sure moves slowly when you're waiting for it to completely block out the moon!
Clear as a bell here in Morgantown. Thanks skullbrain! Without you I wouldn't have known about it at all! I was just checking the forum before I went to bed and I read this, grabbed the gal, and we ran out freezing cold and looked for a few minutes!
Where do you live in Texas? It rained here all day and night also so I didn't get to check it out this time.
yeah, my wife saw it and was wondering what the hell was going on. i told her it was the harvest moon or something because it was all orange looking ahd shit. she quick told me that there isn't any harvesting in Feb. haha. i sometimes talk and figure stuff out without thinking. but yeah, this was a cool event.
It was cloudy here and I missed it. But, when I took a break from working around 2:00 am, the clouds had cleared and the moon was the brightest I have ever seen it! Just beautiful, so I felt redeemed for missing the eclipse!
In my neighborhood we watched in childlike awe as the moon turned to blood. We prepared to sacrifice goats and dance naked around bonfires to appease the sky sprites, but then the moon started turning back into the moon so the goats were spared and we got to keep our clothes on. Thank goodness because PETA has infiltrated the 'hood and would have made a mighty stink about the nudity, had it occurred.
Reminded me of this church that was over by my old neighborhood. Well for one it wasn't in a church but in some run down office buildings. I would drive by there to get home and probably once a month or so they would all be outside having this huge party and there were all these goats in a pen in the middle of the festivities. I am not sure what they would do with them but we always had a joke about going down and joining the slaughter.
Sounds odd among office buildings, but then, as a kid I knew Tongan and Samoan people who would hold big party wakes when someone died. A pig would be slaughtered and roasted in someone's back yard. Not sure if that was legal but it was tolerated as a cultural thing. There's a similar recurring issue here in SF with the Santeria community, who occasionally slaughter chickens in religious ritual context. It's technically illegal but again, an exception is made by law enforcement on religious grounds. Obviously my post was in jest but the reference to the tension between animal rights activists and those who engage in the ritual slaughter of animals really exists.
it was also a bit cloudy in tampa but it was still pretty cool to watch the eclipse for a minute or two...
I was watching Hellboy during the eclipse, at the end when they open a portal using the moon and it turns all blood red and like cthulhu comes out, I was like "oh shit!" hahah! The eclipse was awesome, don't think I've seen a lunar eclipse before, or at least in a long while.
South of SF we did get to see the bright blob behind the overcast become less bright and go out, and then come back...but that was the extent of it
I was standing out in the parking lot of a supermarket about 9:45, watching the eclipse. Human nature being what it is, every passerby had to check what I was gazing up at, and the next thing I knew, there were a dozen of us gathered around admiring and talking about it. I was surprised how few people knew it was due. Unfortunately, by the time it reached totality we could only see short glimpses through the cloud gaps. I think a 'blue moon' is a second full moon in a calendar month, but is there some particular lunar event that is known as a 'harvest moon'? As the the goats, etc. ... In Miami there is a courthouse employee whose full-time job is cleaning up the remnants of Santeria rituals performed outside (and in the stairways and hallways of) the county criminal courthouse by adherents hoping to influence a judge or jury to be gentle with their accused friends or relatives. Often the remains of chickens, goats, etc., but sometimes just rum, coins and tobacco and the like.
