Total Lunar eclipse tonight, don’t miss it!
Tonight (Wednesday, February 20) there will be an excellent total Lunar eclipse available for your viewing pleasure. Don’t miss it! This is the last one until 2010, and it’s quite a nice one too, at just the optimum time for American watches on the Eastern seaboard so that it occurs entirely after sunset yet concludes before bedtime. Lunar eclipses are the easiest astronomical phenomenon to observe. Just go outside at the right time and look up at the Moon, no telescopes or binoculars required. The totality of the eclipse occurs at 10:00pm EST, but if you want to see the Moon slipping into Earth’s shadow, go out before then.
February 20th, 2008 at 15:51
Just hope the eclipse is still visibile through the clouds of this snow storm we might get in the DC area tonight.
February 20th, 2008 at 19:39
Yeah, it’s cloudy as hell right now. I’m not hopeful. Dammit.
That’s the problem with astronomy — the major element in whether you actually get to see anything in a given night is completely out of your control. For long term observing it doesn’t matter so much, because not every night will be cloudy, but for particular rare events, it can suck.
February 21st, 2008 at 04:06
Watched it, took some pictures. But… Eh.
February 21st, 2008 at 16:27
Yeah, I ended up seeing it too through some breaks in the clouds. And it was kind of underwhelming. Ah well.