Viewing The Lunar Eclipse From Indoors
We’ve been looking forward to viewing the total lunar eclipse tonight, the last until 2010. Unfortunately, it’s only 13°F outside — a temperature that’s far too chilly for us to remain outside for the event’s duration of 51 minutes.
Which is why I decided to find out if we’ll be able to see the eclipse from indoors, although we’ll no doubt pop outside for a short viewing:
1. I hopped online an looked up our latitude and longitude.
2. Then I typed that info in at Your Sky to find out where the moon would be when the eclipse began. (01:43 on 02212008 UTC.)
Turns out, if I open the curtains up we can watch the eclipse from right here on our sofa. Lazy? Perhaps. But at least we’ll be warm!
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we’re facing east, but we’re just popping out now and then to check the progress. Right now we’re watching the shuttle land this morning, TiVo’d from the NASA channel.
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Our family room windows face east, so I’m watching it right now and waiting for a good time to pop out. (It’s so cold outside!)
YEah… overcast and rainy here. It’s a pass.
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Clear and a bit chilly here. I’m headed out the door as I type with tripod and camera in hand.
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We see it beautifully through our back windows. My kids are so young, they don’t really care but I would be outside in a minute to watch it…if I had to…but I don’t…so I won’t.
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It’s really freaking cold out there, isn’t it? I had to step outside to look at it directly, because watching it through the window kind of felt like watching TV. I didn’t stay out long.
Too dang cold.
Yeah, I know what you mean. Geez, it must be 40F out there!
Got some good photos, I think….working them up now & I’ll post later. I went out on one of the golf courses we live between because it was dark-ish, and while I was standing there with an open shutter (very, very still), some guy came walking by with his dog. I think I scared him into a new and better incarnation.
Either that or I provided him with a ready excuse when his wife asks him about his skid marks.
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You left coasters get so smug about your weather.
Hey, it’s rare that that happens. Most of the time in February, it’s raining cats, dogs, and small farm animals here. It is warmer than Kansas, though, I’ll give you that.
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I tell you what, it’s been so cold and snowy this winter that if I begin complaining much about the heat this summer you have permission to tell me to shut my trap.
I can’t believe I forgot about it, after all the hype! Grrr… just goes to show, if I don’t write it down it’s gone…
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Well, the next one’s in 2010 so you won’t have to wait too long.
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I figured it would be too hard to see and didn’t bother. I hear it was great. Dang.
I did drag my daughter out in the wee hours (very wee — like get up in the middle of the night and then go back to bed) to watch a meteor shower once. I don’t think we’ll ever forget it. We were wrapped up in blankets on a yard lounge chair. I was on the bottom, she was on top of me and the cat was on top of her. A happy pile of creatures. And all around us streaks of light. Endless, everywhere lights shimmering out.
I should remember that, and always remember that it’s worth a try.
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Maybe the lunar eclipse jonesed my sites?
That memory you made with your daughter watching the meteor shower is priceless. I always wished my parents did more things like that with me when I was a kid. VH still talks about times when his Mom would take him to the shore of the lake (where they had a cabin) and watch storms rolling in. I’m determined to do those kind of things now with my son.
Photos posted. I couldn’t get any of the kids to come out with me, but they liked looking at the pictures.
Most of what I shot looks like the two examples, thus the lack of variety.
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Saw prt of the eclipes wow it was spectacular