Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight, February 20, 2008

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<p>This is a reminder that tonight’s total lunar eclipse will be visible throughout North America.</p>

<p>Check NASA’s website and your local news websites for visibility times in your area. The eclipse will last approximately three and a half hours with fifty minutes’ totality. </p>

<p>This is a dramatically beautiful natural event for you to share with your sons and daughters whether they are standing right next to you, or are attending college miles away from home. </p>

<p>The next total lunar eclipse won’t be visible in North America until December 20, 2010 (think how different your lives will be by that date), so keep your fingers crossed for clear skies in your area tonight, and head outside at the right time. </p>

<p>Have a memorable evening, everyone.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the ‘heads-up’! I have great memories associated with lunar eclipses as that’s how I met my husband! I’d gone to a club with some girlfriends to hear a new up-and-coming band and during the music break somebody mentioned the ongoing lunar eclipse. We all went outside and that’s when i met him. We chatted in the parking lot while watching the moon do its thing! It was a beautiful spring evening and…the rest is history…twenty six years and counting!</p>

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<p>We may have to dust off Astrogirl’s telescope (sad and neglected, because she only took her astro binocs to school with her) and spend the evening outside. She says 9 - 12 will be the window on the East Coast (or at least in her neck of the woods in MD).</p>

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<p>At dinner tonite, we were discussing tonites eclipse when my brother in law told us that the Navaho believe that if a parent sees a lunar eclipse, their children will vomit. GEESS, my son catches every stomach flu that passes by our house. Now I am afraid to look!!!</p>

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<p>[Nation</a> & World | Check out the lunar eclipse tonight | Seattle Times Newspaper](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004190984_lunar20.html]Nation”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004190984_lunar20.html)</p>

<p>Attention, Seattle: the best viewing time is from 7 to 7:50 PM. And the clouds are thinning out!</p>

<p>May be I will be able to catch a glimps of the red moon. Not as spectacular as a total solar eclipse, but still quite a show in the sky!</p>

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<p>It’s started on the East coast. Perfectly clear night.</p>

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<p>Been watching it–neat to see it surrounded by clouds.</p>

<p>No need to dust off telescopes–it’s very visible!!!:)</p>

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<p>Great view from my backyard - very cool!</p>

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<p>Ah, it’s finally getting to that turning reddish state–so cool! </p>

<p>I love eclipses, though my favorite extraterrestrial event is, i think, comets.</p>

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<p>I thought I was going to miss it, but I am just south of the lake effect snow band coming off Lake Ontario now…I’m watching with my daughter (she’ll be a college soph by the next one!!)</p>

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<p>Ooowee, it’s cool! Outside, a red glow… but couldn’t stand the cold very long. Cloudless night here just east of Lake Erie; very bright. </p>

<p>Earlier tonight I phoned my kids and emailed them, and dismissed an adult education class early for this.</p>

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<p>The eclipse is sooo cool. Kids and I keep running outside every 15 minutes or so to check progress.</p>

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<p>Drat! It’s cold and rainy here tonight. Can see a thing.:(</p>

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<p>The telescope is for seeing the rings around Saturn, close by the red moon. Must admit it is about 10 degrees out, so I did not set up the telescope.</p>

<p>It is very clear, very nice. No clouds, even though it is supposed to be snowing and icing.</p>

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<p>hauled telescope out to street - ran back in to put contacts in again - called H and all the kids to remind them… got really good look but then the clouds came back. Plus all the good cameras are elsewhere.
Fortunately I got to talk to 6 year old neice - Hey “L”, go outside and look at the moon. Does it look different that it did last night?"<br>
“Cool, really red, isn’t it”
“Tell your dad to get a flashlight and a tennis ball and show you why”
We science folks are shameless in our recuitment !</p>

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<p>Totally overcast tonight. I’ll have to find online photos.</p>

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<p>We had just a 3-minute break in the clouds when we stepped out on the back deck and saw it just coming out of totality. Cool.</p>

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<p>We had a clear night, and it was very beautiful.</p>

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<p>Wowwww! For once, the weather cooperated here! And I did not have to drag myself out of the bed in the middle of the night to see it!</p>

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<p>We had light cloud cover throughout, but still saw enough to be thrilled. My daughter took some pictures, and she didn’t even vomit (but then, we’re part Mohawk, not Navajo).</p>

<p>I’m glad to hear that you all had a good time.</p>