BS: Eclipse of the Moon

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Jock Morris
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 03:36 AM

Cloud cleared away just in time for the eclipse up in Edinburgh. Nice orangy red colour as it reached totallity.

Scott

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Llanfair
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 03:26 AM

Saw bits of the moon through the mist here in Wales.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Nemesis
Date: 10 Jan 01 - 12:36 AM

Did you hear that Hastings witches were congregating to try and prevent any negative energies getting through? Well, it didn't work further up the coast in Worthing - I had the local "witch", as in mad and bad female creature walk past the house for the first time in months mouthing profanities, and then after watching the moon turn red, discovered our adored little black cat, Esme, had been hit by a car...

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 06:04 PM

(Geoff the Duck)
We had mist or thin cloud, so the gradual disappearance of the moon was visible but not spectacular, then just as the final obscuration (is that a word? - should it be obscurity? or obfuscation, or obscenity, or obsidian or bog-it just as the final crescent was disappearing) the clouds swept over what we could see, and we lost it.
No "Blood Red" glow, no nothing!
Never mind - GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: okthen
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:43 PM

Great view here in Suffolk, rushing outside every 10 minutes, rushing back in to get warm.

Lovely dark red at times.

cheers

bill

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:38 PM

I got some strange looks from our neighbours too, looking through binoculars in the dark, but they ha no intrest in watching.

They mist a lovely sight!!

Guest Mike Cahill, what part of Yorkshire? We are neer Goole.

Mrs. C.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclipse of the Moon
From: GUEST,Philippa
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:32 PM

NW Ireland - I looked for the moon but it was nowhere to be seen in the misty fog filled air. The sky looked white all day and it was no better tonight. I think in the country areas without all the electric light people could see something.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: GUEST,ickle dorritt
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 05:24 PM

Well we stood in the middle of the street, my husband modelling the latest in Hungarian Head Fashion with a pair of binoculars gazing agog at the lunar blueyness of it all. The neighbours now think we're a pair of perves.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:44 PM

Zeb, I was just teasing about spelling.

During a recent (partial) solar eclipse I was working at a place that had those 1" blinds with tiny little holes all over them (not sure what this achieves -- do they take the material and melt it down and make more blinds?). Anyway it was cool because instead of a zillion tiny little circles of light all over my desk, there were a zillion tiny little circles with a bite taken out of each. It was pretty cool!

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Zebedee
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:40 PM

Mousethief

The NASA eclipe page is a great starting point if you want to learn a bit more about eclipses.

And I think you should! :-)

Seriously, I love them and they help me realise my place in the universe.

Ed

who wishes he had enough money to go to Madagascar in the summer

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Morticia
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:34 PM

sadly it was too overcast here, moon looked a 1000-wash grey, that was it.....

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: mousethief
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:24 PM

I didn't realize the moon HAD an eclip, let alone more than one.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: GUEST,MIKE CAHILL
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:10 PM

Up here in west Yorkshire I had to go to a corner of my alotment to find somewhere away from light polution, but it was worth it, a deep coral pink, and it actually looked like a sphere rather than the normal disc

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Doctor John
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 04:05 PM

It's certainly gone (8.45, Devon) not blood red though; just not there. Very dark out here in the sticks. Checking to see if it's returned. Dr John

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Zebedee
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:47 PM

Sorry Mary,

23rd May 2003 is your next chance in America.(I think, I have to rush outside....)

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:43 PM

Cobble, we had an eclipse of the sun here in the central US on Christmas Day. My astronomer buddy told me that a sun eclipse and a moon eclipse usually occur in pairs. So we were looking for another one, just didn't realize it would be this soon, or not really visible for us.

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Zebedee
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:42 PM

Be sure to watch at 20:52 when the moon starts to reappear.

You can really understand why the ancients got freaked out by such things, and biblical phrases of the "moon will turn to blood" signifying doom.

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Eclips of the Moon
From: Brakn
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:30 PM

Brrrrrrrrr. Yep!

Subject: Eclips of the Moon
From: Cobble
Date: 09 Jan 01 - 03:27 PM

I have just spent a wonderful hour in my back yard, freezing cold, looking at the total eclips of the moon.

The moon looked so ghostly as it turned to a beautiful shade of pale orange.

Did any of you UK 'catters see it?

Mrs. C