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Old 02-20-2008, 09:31 PM
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Default Total Lunar eclipse tonight
Nice clear night on the Sand Flats...peak time will be around 10pm E.S.T.
last one until 2010...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/.../lunar_eclipse




.....wonder if Avery will chime in on this event?
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Old 02-20-2008, 09:33 PM
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Ask Hossy to let you use his hand shadow box.
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Old 02-20-2008, 09:36 PM
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Ask Hossy to let you use his hand shadow box.
You don't need protective eye wear for this eclipse.....but, you may freeze your butt off watching it.
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Too cloudy here to see. I'll have to wait until 2010.
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Too cloudy here to see. I'll have to wait until 2010.

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Can you see the eclipse from the holler?????
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Too cloudy here to see. I'll have to wait until 2010.
Just got cloudy here too the last 15 mins.....oh well!
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Because I love you guys...

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(Bad pic, but my camera sucks - sorry.)
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I saw the last lunar eclipse
it was kinda cool
and nearly impossible to photograph
especially with my camera

your pic isn't as bad as mine were

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This one makes it look like there are two moons, LOL...

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Attachment 670

(Bad pic, but my camera sucks - sorry.)
Not bad.....for in the dark

bet it's a lot warmer where you are.
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Not bad.....for in the dark

bet it's a lot warmer where you are.
It's about 60... beautiful weather.
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It's about 60... beautiful weather.
Currently 8 degrees here, -1 with the wind chill
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It's about 60... beautiful weather.
Damn its all cloudy.
Cant see anything.
I think its two or three year wait for the next.

Thanks for the pictures Gator
but there is nothing like the bino's
for looking at this.

I love these things.

Got the last solar eclipse videoed
and it is awesome. bout 75% of totality here.
The lunar eclipses often give some extraordinary colors
that I wont be able to see.
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Damn its all cloudy.
Cant see anything.
I think its two or three year wait for the next.

Thanks for the pictures Gator
but there is nothing like the bino's
for looking at this.

I love these things.

Got the last solar eclipse videoed
and it is awesome. bout 75% of totality here.
The lunar eclipses often give some extraordinary colors
that I wont be able to see.
Sorry...

Wish I had a nicer camera. I hate this stupid Kodak.

How did you video the solar eclipse? Isn't that supposed to kill your eyes or something like that? (I don't know much about them.)
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Sorry...

Wish I had a nicer camera. I hate this stupid Kodak.

How did you video the solar eclipse? Isn't that supposed to kill your eyes or something like that? (I don't know much about them.)
I use a pinhole box and followed the progress. So I had the camera pointed at a piece of white paper. It showed the perfect outline of the sun and the little black bite that was taken out of a bright cookie. You could also see some wispy clouds as they passed by the sun. It was really neat.

You can get all these filters to video it but it was too expensive. And it does burn your retina if you dont have the right type of filters over your eyes. And even then, it does not look as good so I just used the pinhole.
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I use a pinhole box and followed the progress. So I had the camera pointed at a piece of white paper. It showed the perfect outline of the sun and the little black bite that was taken out of a bright cookie. You could also see some wispy clouds as they passed by the sun. It was really neat.

You can get all these filters to video it but it was too expensive. And it does burn your retina if you dont have the right type of filters over your eyes. And even then, it does not look as good so I just used the pinhole.
Awesome... I would never have guessed you could do that.
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