who saw the lunar eclipse.?

Answer 1

hello
The info on a lunar eclipse, followed by my personal experiences.
A lunar eclipse occurs whenever the Moon passes through some portion of the Earth's shadow. This can occur only when the Moon is full, and when the Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so. The type and length of a lunar eclipse depends upon the Moon's location relative to its orbital nodes. The most recent total lunar eclipse was on 3 March 2007. It was fully visible over Europe and Africa and at least partly visible over the eastern Americas, Asia, and western Australia.[1] The moon entered the penumbral shadow at 20:18 UTC, and the umbral shadow at 21:30 UTC. The total phase lasted between 22:44 UTC and 23:58 UTC. The moon left the umbra shadow at 01:11 UTC and left the penumbra shadow at 02:24 UTC 4 March 2007.

The next lunar eclipse will occur on 28 August 2007.
My sister and I saw the lunar eclipse, we caught the end of it, when it was nearly finished, it was suppose to start at 10pm, but we started watching about 11.30pm, and it was taking it's time covering the whole moon, nice to watch something different from the usual re-runs of CSI! We are in Enfield, and believe it or not, despite all the famous star gazers stating the only place you can see all these events in the sky is in devon or cornwall, we get a good view of most things, being 7 storey's high helps, but about 12yrs ago we actually saw part of the astoroid shower, that patrick moore was waiting for a glimpse of all the way in devon, he saw nothing that night, my sister and i witnessed 6-7 shooting stars one after the other and 2 at the same time, that was our lot, but we saw more than the expert....

Answer 2

I went out a for a walk whilst it was happening and then kept an eye on it from our front door. I thought the colouring was lovely, but I only saw it take about half of the surface up - not the whole moon the coppery red.
Its the first time in a long time we've managed to see something without cloud hiding it.
I thought the solar eclipse we had a few years ago was well weird....really spooky!

Answer 3

I saw the lunar eclispe from the top of a 100ft derrick on an oil rig in the north sea, not a bad view

Answer 4

We had a perfect view of the entire eclipse here in Hertfordshire, England.

Answer 5

Saw it really clearly here in Barrow in Furness - first a "bite" out of the moon and then at around midnight, the whole moon was occluded and looked really red/bronzed.

Answer 6

Well it was crystal clear here in Bonnie Scotland. However I couldnt see the moon because of a giant shadow covering the whole surface.

Answer 7

i nipped out the back door of work in Edinburgh and the eclipse was beautiful. Really glad I saw it. xx

Answer 8

yes i saw it from lewisham and canary wharf. i took some pics of it and you can clearly see the shadow of the earth on the moon .it makes a change to be able to see some of these atronomical sights as the weather in london is mostly cloudy

Answer 9

Fell fast asleep and missed the whole thing!

Thanks Scythian1950 - that makes me feel a bit better, at least I know what I would've seen now!

Answer 10

I did. Sometimes it's a shame that we can explain nearly everything with science. How creepy and magical must it have felt to those people in the past, who didn't know what caused it.