Lunar Eclipse Tuesday morning West Coast

[Coil Coyle]

http://www.space.com/spacewatch/070824_ns_eclipse.html

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Coil

[h2olawyer]

Cool beans.  I really enjoy Mother Nature's shows.  This year's Perseid Meteor Shower was fantastic & I didn't even venture out of town.  Spent about an hour outdoors watching & counted 85 shooting stars.  Wonder what I could have seen without so much light pollution!

H₂O

[Ron_McCoy]

They really need to schedule these celestial events to be more convenient for dayshift guys who have to get up at 5:00 in the morning.  Staying up for the Perseids until the middle of the night for three nights in a row left me sleepy for almost a week.

[X-Vision]

The good thing about that is that you get to ride all day...Mmmm.... All day....Every day.... I can all ways catch that eclipse on the news, Oh well....

[h2olawyer]

I got up & watched part of the eclipse last night.  Started @ 2:51AM (MDT).  I watched until totality began, which took an hour.  Had some minor cloud interference, but by the time totality arrived, the clouds had cleared & I was treated to a beautiful, dim orange ball in the star filled sky.

The last total lunar eclipse I saw was several years ago while on a week long raft trip through Dinosaur National Monument.  We all left the campsite and hiked about a half mile back upriver.  The Yampa flows through a fairly deep canyon & we needed to get to a more open spot on a sharp river bend.  On the way, I noticed several on my friends had not worn their headlamps or brought flashlights.  When I mentioned it to them, they said "we don't need them, it's a full moon."  That's when I replied, "We're going to see a TOTAL ECLIPSE!"  The only reply I got was, "D'oh!"  One of them turned back & retrieved the necessary light emitting implements. (true story)

H₂O

[X-Vision]

 The last eclipse I experienced was the solar eclipse. I was in Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico... Total darkness during the day! WOW!!!. It was extraordinary watching darkness just consume the city! It was a domino effect as the streetlights lit up as the sensors were tripped. I'll see if I can dig up some Pics.