Total Lunar Eclipse tonight (Sat 03/03/07)

Hi,

I've just noticed on the BBC's website at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6411991.stm there's a total eclipse of the
moon tonight starting around 10:40.

Didn't see a heads up here so I thought I'd mention it.

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Boo

On Mar 3, 7:08 pm, Boo
wrote:
Hi,

I've just noticed on the BBC's website at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6411991.stm there's a total eclipse of the
moon tonight starting around 10:40.

Didn't see a heads up here so I thought I'd mention it.

In this weather?

You do know the time of the phase, don't you?

wrote:

Didn't see a heads up here so I thought I'd mention it.

In this weather?

I was just going to say that too. Bloody cloudy yet again :-( - might
get some sort of a view though, I can see the disc through the cloud
cover.

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Andy Hewitt
http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/

On 3 Mar 2007 11:25:53 -0800, " wrote:

In this weather?

Clear as a bell in the far north of Scotland - which makes a change for
once :-)

It is only penumbral now but the partial phase in the main shadow should
be not too far off - about 12 minutes to go.


Bill.

"Andy Hewitt" wrote in message
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wrote:

Didn't see a heads up here so I thought I'd mention it.

In this weather?

I was just going to say that too. Bloody cloudy yet again :-( - might
get some sort of a view though, I can see the disc through the cloud
cover.


You're not near Bournemouth are you? For the first time, it looks like I'm
going to see something. Every other time there's been anything worth seeing,
I've missed it due to the weather. Especially the total solar eclipse a few
years ago. We are only about 60 miles from the zone of totality, but the sky
was black anyway. Had the forecast been good, I was going to go down there.

But back to tonight. I take it we've got first contact now? I just looked
out of the window and the bottom edge of the moon is dark. Or is that cloud?
I think I'll go outdoors for a minute or so. Back soon.

Steve

In this weather?

It's not too bad at all in Brighton atm.

You do know the time of the phase, don't you?

What's the phase ?

--
Boo

But back to tonight. I take it we've got first contact now? I just looked
out of the window and the bottom edge of the moon is dark. Or is that cloud?
I think I'll go outdoors for a minute or so. Back soon.

Steve

Steve,

According to my scrolls the partial begins at 21:30UT.
Totality begins at 22:44UT with mideclipse at 23:21UT.
You should be seeing the eclipse onset.

I have just signed into uk.sci.astronomy.

Thrilling,

Ben
90.126 n 35.539

"Ben" wrote in message
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But back to tonight. I take it we've got first contact now? I just looked
out of the window and the bottom edge of the moon is dark. Or is that
cloud?
I think I'll go outdoors for a minute or so. Back soon.

Steve

Steve,

According to my scrolls the partial begins at 21:30UT.
Totality begins at 22:44UT with mideclipse at 23:21UT.
You should be seeing the eclipse onset.


Looks out of window again - The moon is now 30 - 40% covered.


I have just signed into uk.sci.astronomy.

Thrilling,

Ben
90.126 n 35.539

Where is that?

Steve

In message , Bill
Eaves writes
On 3 Mar 2007 11:25:53 -0800, " wrote:

In this weather?

Clear as a bell in the far north of Scotland - which makes a change for
once :-)

It is only penumbral now but the partial phase in the main shadow should
be not too far off - about 12 minutes to go.


Bill.


Pretty good here in Edinburgh now 23:15. Sky-glow is not too bad

Brian
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Brian Howie

In uk.sci.astronomy message 1huezr1.l7ffvp19k1jvwN%wildrover.andy@googl
email.com, Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:36:39, Andy Hewitt wildrover.andy@google
mail.com posted:
wrote:

Didn't see a heads up here so I thought I'd mention it.

In this weather?

I was just going to say that too. Bloody cloudy yet again :-( - might
get some sort of a view though, I can see the disc through the cloud
cover.

It started much earlier than stated earlier in thread, if penumbral
counts. Currently it is total, making Leo and Saturn very easy to spot.

Visibility here nigh-perfect - but just enough low haze to show that
there's an oscillating beam about 0.5 deg wide coming from a ground
point about SSE of here.


It would be better, though, a little later in the day and year.

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