Total Lunar Eclipse Tomorrow Night

[filkertom]

Lots of useful links here.

Fascinating, really -- it's going into the winter solstice itself, and then the days start getting longer. Ahhhhhh, spring, get here fast.

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[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Spring?
AYYYYYY-MAYEN!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, we're scheduled for rain all this week.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

wow a lunar eclipse and then a full moon on the solstice, that's pretty awesome.

[sveethot.livejournal.com]

NOOOOoooooo! Here in Houston I beg for Winter to start early and stay late. Summers here suck. Big time.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Your link fails to mention my favorite aspect of a Lunar eclipse. During the partial phase, you are looking at the silhouette of the earth projected on the moon. Gives you a sense of relative size (though the deep shadow "umbra" is one moon-diameter smaller than earth itself). Here are four partially eclisped moons arranged to show how the whole silhouette looks compared to the moon:

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

I've heard, although I can't confirm if it's true, that a full lunar eclipse on the winter solstice occurs roughly every 1000 years.

If the universe had any sense of narrative then some ancient evil should be stirring while an evil cult strives to retrieve the one thing, or eliminate the one person, who can prevent this, leading to some unlikely hero[ine] saving the day etc...

Of course, it won't. Sadly the world is far more mundane than that.

Still, it should be an interesting spectacle.

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Stupid overcast. :(

Spring is wonderful, but is unfortunately followed by Summer. Bleagh. I'll take January over July any day.