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Bummer... It really is an amber color... The cool thing right now is that it's near the end, so the part that's coming (i guess) 'out of the eclipse' is the regular moon color. It's a neat contrast. Pretty cool how it's a full moon, too. If I had a camera handy, I'd snap some shots. Alas, all I can offer are my words...
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It is really fabulous. It's wrapping up where I am -- the moon's about a third of the way back out. I totally love eclipses.
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This is the first time I can remember making a concerted effort to see it - and I'm SO glad I did. I've been cheating myself!
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We missed it here on the West Coast, but we'll apparently get a really good shot of the one in August.
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By the time it rose enough to see it, here, it was already past totality, but I watched it come out from behind the earth's shadow gradually. It was so cool! I love eclipses! It had been 2 and 1/2 years since the last one. I remember that one was really awesome.
I just adore how the fully eclipsed moon looks. It's all 3d or something. And I love seeing the Earth's shadow slowly move across the face of the moon. Did you know that the ancient Greeks knew the world was spherical for a number of reasons, but one of the big reasons was that the earth's shadow on the face of the moon is always round. By Columbus' time, everyone who was educated knew the earth was a sphere, and most of them knew how big it was, too. You can find that by measuring the difference in angle of sunlight down a well at noon at two places some distance apart that are directly north and south of one another. The distance apart in miles over the difference in angle in degrees is equal to the circumference of the earth in miles over 365 degrees. I think Archimedes worked it all out in something or other BC. Anyway, Columbus was dumb, and so were Ferdinand and Isabella! But it's okay to be dumb if you're also very very lucky.
Here's a really cool vid of the moon doing a transit across the face of the sun, as seen from a solar observatory in space.
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I was in a bus and noticed the moon at about 1/4. I had no idea there was supposed to be an eclipse, so I was really confused when I saw it nearing full when I looked out the window a little while later!
Did anyone else have a HUGE ring around the moon as well? After the eclipse was over?
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I didn't get a chance to see this one, but I have seen a couple prior ones, as well as a total solar eclipse in 1993.
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Ha, I was driving earlier and was mesmerized by how gorgeous the moon was. I didn't realize there was an eclipse. I need to pay more attention to these things. Posts: 1947 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Here are some cool pictures of the eclipse of Mar 3, on the Sky & Telescope page. Looks like some of these photographers had a lot better view of it than I did. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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I managed to catch this on Saturday night. We were lucky enough to have a totally clear sky. I’ve never seen an lunar eclipse which was quite that dramatic - the moon turned orange and looked just like a celestial basket ball.
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