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Stargazers Watch Total Lunar Eclipse
By Larry Hendrick | March 4, 2007
Did you get to watch the lunar eclipse? We missed out, and will have to settle with looking at pictures of the event. The interesting thing … good pictures of the event are as elusive as the real thing here in Galveston County, Texas. Look at this picture from the BBC website and tell me this is as good as is available.
Our moon rise was at 6:20 PM (CST, 7:20 EST) and there was a low cloud cover on the horizon, so the event was finished before it began for us. Maybe next time.
SPACE.com — Stargazers Watch Total Lunar Eclipse
LONDON (AP)—The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.
The Earth’s shadow took over six hours to crawl across the moon’s surface, eating it into a crescent shape before engulfing it completely in a spectacle at least partly visible on every continent.
About a dozen amateur astronomers braved the cold and mud outside the Croydon Observatory in southeast London to watch the start of the eclipse.
“It’s starting to go!” said Alex Gikas, 8, a Cub Scout who was studying for his astronomy badge. “I’ve never seen anything like it before. I’m really excited.”
By the time greatest eclipse, shortly after 5:44 p.m. EST, the light of the full moon was replaced by near-total obscurity.
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March 5th, 2007 at 11:27 am
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March 5th, 2007 at 11:37 am
you are so good! These are wonderful.