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couldnt see saturn but the eclipse was pretty damn cool
couldnt see saturn but the eclipse was pretty damn cool
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I think I caught a cold last night looking at the sky. Whaaaa Whaaa WhaaaaaaaaaaaComment
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Any pics???Comment
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Total Eclipse of the Moon: Your Photos
By Brandon Keim
February 21, 2008 | 11:56:30 AMCategories: Space
Earth passed between the sun and a full moon last night, sending our interstellar sidekick into rusty shadow and Wired Science readers to their cameras.
Above and below are pictures sent from places as far-flung as Santiago, Chile and Waterloo, Ontario. The response was great; the enthusiasm, as seen in these comments, positively heartwarming -- and I needed that warmth, because it was cold in New York City last night!
I truly hadn't expected such a response. But there's something so enthralling about seeing Earth's shadow slip across the face of our closest cosmic neighbor. The moon is always a companion, especially when it's full -- and an eclipse brings it closer, as if we'd clapped it on the shoulder.
If you'd like to see a diagram of the eclipse, go here; if that's too dry, just pretend that the great cheesemaker in the sky had an order for Gouda. And I heartily recommend the first story in Italo Calvino's collection Cosmicomics -- a memory of a time when the new moonrolled around in the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind; and when she was waxing, she came forward with her horns so low she seemed about to stick into the peak of a promontory and get caught there. But the whole business of the Moon's phases worked in a different way then: because the distances from the Sun were different, and the orbits, and the angle of something or other, I forget what....And now for the pictures. (The first two, by the way, came from Simone Vitale in Tucson, Arizona and Russell Martin in Portland, Oregon.)
Orbit? Oh, elliptical, of course: for a while it would huddle against us and then it would take flight for a while. The tides, when the Moon swung closer, rose so high nobody could hold them back. There were nights when the Moon was full and very, very low, and the tide was so high that the Moon missed a ducking in the sea by a hair's-breadth; well, let's say a few yards anyway. Climb up on the moon? Of course we did. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up.
The moon somewhere on the East Coast of the United States. Courtesy Marc Nozell.
Ed Sunder, Flintstone, Georgia
Matthew Allen
Matt D, New York City
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This is what it looked like through my telescope. (this is not my picture. Just used it to give you an idea.)Comment
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I'd love to have seen that. Looks amazing.Comment
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wow yeah that looks really coolComment
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i checked this out last night from my south facing window with binoculars and it looked nuts close up. definately reminds me how serious science is, antronomy is quite an advancement for humankind.Comment
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I saw the eclipse that nigh too. It was really cool. I'm lucky enough to live on campus at my university so i actually got to see saturn through a telescope and it looked just like that. I got to take a look at a nebula too that was pretty sweet as well
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