Looked outside tonight? DO IT NOW!!!!

The moon is my jack o'lantern, baby!

Published on October 27, 2004 By Spc Nobody Special In Current Events

Looked outside tonight? No? Go fast!!!! Look up!! The moon is the most amazing shade of red from the eclipse we're having, RIGHT NOW!!!! Don't miss it, there's not another one that can be seen from the states for 3 years.

It's a great glowing orange red globule floating in the sky. The color comes from the light leaking around the edges of the earth at a tangent to the atmosphere's (where the sunsets and sunrises are happening. It just peaked maybe 9:30/9:35ish central time, so if you look fast you still might make it. Damn it's beautiful.

Why are you still reading? Look now!

I just know greywar's gonna miss this............

Comments (Page 1)

apdelong31

on Oct 27, 2004

I just tried a couple minutes ago, it's too cloudy. I'll have to wait until 2007.

Mr_Frog

on Oct 27, 2004

Not me...I just posted about it. I have (blurry) pics, but I'm going to take more as the moon comes out of eclipse.

-- B

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 27, 2004

Try binoculars if you've got them, they really help.

Mr_Frog

on Oct 27, 2004

Yeah, I have a telescope but it's buried in storage. My damn digital camera is only 2.1 mpixel (with no optical zoom) so it takes kind of shitty pictures of small far-away things. Thankfully the clouds cleared about an hour before it started, so I have a really nice view of it.

-- B

citahellion

on Oct 27, 2004

Dammit, there's only one cloud in the sky here, but it stretches from one horizon to the other in all directions. Can't see a damn thing above 1000 feet.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 27, 2004

Wow!!! It's still red, but now it's really, REALLY dark.

Texas Wahine

on Oct 27, 2004

I looked outside, but I didn't see it . . .

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 27, 2004

I looked outside, but I didn't see it . . .

Is it even dark there yet? Look deeeppperrrrr.........deeeeeeeeeppppppperrrrrrr, danielsan

Texas Wahine

on Oct 27, 2004

Is it even dark there yet? Look deeeppperrrrr.........deeeeeeeeeppppppperrrrrrr, danielsan

He he he . . . nope. Not dark yet.

Spc Nobody Special

on Oct 27, 2004

Shame, it's such a pretty shade of blood......just like in Revelations

chiprj

on Oct 27, 2004

It's cloudy here, too...

Ripbeak

on Oct 27, 2004

Seems like every astronomical event that happens around my neck of the woods is blocked by overcast skies. This one is no exception.

Angloesque

on Oct 28, 2004

Clear and pretty in the NWest, y'all.

The moon was beautiful tonight.

-A.

SSG Geezer

on Oct 28, 2004

The difference in the amount of light I had to do my security checks tonight was amazing! Very dark and a pretty Red moon, and at 0300
a very bright full moon. it was weird watching the edge of the moon start to turn white as the eclipse ended.

Hyperborean Wanderer

on Oct 28, 2004

I watched it this morning at 0400ish local time. I was hoping the locals wouldn't atke it as a sign to go blow up some more infidels, but I can't tell whether they did or not, because they do it everyday anyway. Plus, it's Ramadan.

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