lunar eclipses

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tinyadventureclub:

Lots of you earned one of these badge last night! 

Wich one did you earn?

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#thank you for this comforting badge #fucking clouds #(I’ve seen *a* supermoon) #(just not an eclipse-y one) #(in the non-eclipse case I didn’t get what all the fuss was about) #(the effect was barely noticeable to the point that I might have been imagining it) #lunar eclipse

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sinesalvatorem:

It’s really cloudy tonight so, while the clouds had a reddish tint, I didn’t see the moon :(

*nod* Fucking clouds.

The worst part is, in my case it might not have just been the clouds. When I finally got a glimpse of the moon at 12:20, about ten minutes before the last of the shadow left, I found it was much higher in the sky than I expected it to be. Specifically, it was high enough that the angle I had been using to check the sky out my window that evening would not have seen it. How long was it up that high? How long?

Fucking clouds. Fucking irregular-relative-to-day/night-cycle moonrises. Fucking sleep schedules.

(Also, I like that “tiny adventure club” tag you used. Looks like the space-less version (”tinyadventureclub”) is more active, though.)

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#reply via reblog #commiseration #how come nobody ever took me out meteor-watching when I was a kid and went to bed at 2 – 3 AM #now it’s too late #(in multiple senses of ‘too late’) #lunar eclipse

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jtotheizzoe:

smithsonianlibraries:

In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, North America, Australia, western Asia and most of the Pacific Ocean will be treated to a full lunar eclipse in which the moon takes on a reddish hue as it passes through the Earth’s shadow.

We borrowed this moon image from The moon hoax, or a discovery that the moon has a vast population of human beings, an 1859 book that compiled the original six articles published in The Sun in 1835. A century before H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds induced panic about a Martian invasion of New Jersey, these six articles helped grow The Sun’s readership dramatically and establish it as a major New York newspaper. Read more about the fascinating history of The Great Moon Hoax on our blog. Rather listen to a podcast? The memory palace has an episode that might be of interest.

Eyes to the sky tonight!

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#lunar eclipse #PSA #history

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Okay, folks. For those of you who haven’t heard, there’s a lunar eclipse on April 15th (the beginning of the 15th, not the end).

People in the westerly parts of North America with roughly ordinary (by industrialised standards) sleep schedules will get a good show. People in the easterly parts of North America with nocturnal sleep schedules (or who stay up late for the occasion) will also get a good show. Europeans are likely out of luck, but may see something just before dawn. (See map and time chart for more details.)

(I personally live in the Eastern time zone and sleep from midnight to 9, and haven’t decided if I’m willing to stay up for it. If you’re in the same boat and decide it’s not worth staying up half the night, the September 28th, 2015 eclipse is much more conveniently timed: 9:07 PM – 12:27 AM EDT. There are also two other lunar eclipses between now and then that people missing this one (or even people not missing this one) may want to look into. (We’re having an unusually large number of lunar eclipses over the next couple years.))

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#oh look an original post #PSA #lunar eclipse #spread the word