COOL!!!!!
2007-08-28 11:05:35 · 12 answers · asked by nanna 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I did. It was a bit hazy and I could barely make it out, remember, I woke you up so you could see it too?
2007-08-28 13:38:58 · answer #1 · answered by Sloan R 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I saw it LAST NIGHT. I was up really late with my telescope. (I have a 70mm refractor telescope.) I've never seen a lunar eclipse before, and I wasn't expecting much. I just figured it would look like a half moon. I was wrong! It was awesome, definitely worth seeing. I live in southern California, and for us it was a total eclipse! It started off as a dark shadow very slowly passing over the top half of the Moon. In a telescope, it was weird and a little spooky. It sort of looked like a half moon, except that you could still see the surface of the Moon as the shadow passed over it. Then, when the Moon was nearly covered there was a just a small patch of bright light where the sun was hitting on the lower left corner. It was really strange...almost looked like it was being lit up by a flashlight or something. I've never seen anything like that before. So you could actually tell the angle of how the sun was lighting it.
Then, a little after 3am, the Moon was completely covered and it had this weird kind of pinkish or light red color. I think that's caused by reflections from dust in the Earth's atmosphere. When the moon was totally eclipsed, the sky became super dark and clear and I got an amazing view of the stars. The conditions were great. I was looking at double clusters, the Andromeda Galaxy...it was awesome.
I stayed up so late that I actually saw the Orion constellation rising...and usually you don't see that until fall or winter.
2007-08-28 11:50:03 · answer #2 · answered by Diverging Point 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
darn missed .it read the papers all the time and watch tv and missed this major event.
Plus I live in the desert where you see some amazaing things at night. Just outside of Area 51
2007-08-28 14:07:50 · answer #3 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For some reason I woke up right as it was starting and sat and watched it. Really cool.
2007-08-28 11:13:20 · answer #4 · answered by Kyle G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bummer, Missed it. Probably answering questions again.
2007-08-28 16:39:58 · answer #5 · answered by duanehofner 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I got to see it good being in Hawaii....It wasn't as bright as I thought it was going to be!!
2007-08-28 12:34:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i got up to see it and something block it,,, and it was hard to see the moon,,, it got dark and i could not see it happen .. the moon was dark,,,,wow did some one have it wrong,,, it was to dark to see anything ,,, next time i hope it,s daytime to see it
2007-08-28 14:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by rocketman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's a photo i took from my window from washington, d.c.
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/1259417235_06bd620384.jpg
also on my blog:
http://ablokesblog.blogspot.com/
2007-08-28 11:11:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
strangely enough, i woke up right as it was occuring. it was great!
2007-08-28 11:35:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did. It was truly amazing!
2007-08-28 11:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by Miss Useless Knowledge 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋