Snowlover11 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 awesome awesome site sucks my whole family is missing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whiteoutwx1796 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Looks awesome. Right over my house..orange and firey...beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 7:43 AM, BL03 said: never seen something like this from the city.. amazing. Thats about all you can see in the city (in the night sky at least lol.) My first astronomical sight was a total lunar eclipse from Brooklyn back in the early 80s! It was one of the brightest (reddest) lunar eclipses ever, and it was followed by one of the darkest eclipses ever (El Chicon lunar eclipse) in December 1982-- by which time I'd moved to Long Island. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 7:46 AM, Vandy said: Amazing to watch. I like to imagine I'm looking at Mars from up close. Yea thats what the brighter ones look like. The really dark ones are actually darker than the background sky and it makes it seem like youre looking at a black hole lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riptide Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 Well, that was rather interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 yeah great show Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Breathtaking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick05 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 too cloudy...:gun_bandana:i saw it "starting" 3 hours ago now can't see anything... so when is the next one?? i read it's 2014? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Top 5 coolest things I've ever seen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmc10 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:35 AM, earthlight said: Top 5 coolest things I've ever seen Really, haven't been in bed with too many women? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:41 AM, bmc10 said: Really, haven't been in bed with too many women? Sans anything not science or meteorology related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:42 AM, earthlight said: Sans anything not science or meteorology related Sorry, the perfection of a celestial event trumps anything mundanely human. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx.1028 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 without a doubt it is beautiful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmc10 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:42 AM, earthlight said: Sans anything not science or meteorology related Fair enough brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:48 AM, A-L-E-X said: Sorry, the perfection of a celestial event trumps anything mundanely human. Just took some borderline nice pictures w/ the cam...will upload tomorrow probably. I'm starting to see some light creep back in to the moon now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx.1028 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:56 AM, earthlight said: Just took some borderline nice pictures w/ the cam...will upload tomorrow probably. I'm starting to see some light creep back in to the moon now. yea looks as if it has a polar ice cap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 8:56 AM, earthlight said: Just took some borderline nice pictures w/ the cam...will upload tomorrow probably. I'm starting to see some light creep back in to the moon now. Me too-- I just tried to post and my internet went down LOL. Let's try this again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:05 AM, A-L-E-X said: Me too-- I just tried to post and my internet went down LOL. Let's try this again..... Amazing pictures!!! :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 First couple are cam pics, the last is a starry night sky sim-- I should try to do a close up of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:05 AM, wx.1028 said: yea looks as if it has a polar ice cap This is a sign of the upcoming pattern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 The polar ice cap is making a heavy advance on the moon now..commence ice age. It's as if we saw the moon go from global warming to ice age in an hour. Amazing logic I am displaying currently...4:00am posts are the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wx.1028 Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:08 AM, earthlight said: The polar ice cap is making a heavy advance on the moon now..commence ice age. It's as if we saw the moon go from global warming to ice age in an hour. Amazing logic I am displaying currently...4:00am posts are the best. that is a sign that the snow gods are listening this weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:06 AM, earthlight said: Amazing pictures!!! :thumbsup: Thanks lol, Im sure yours will be much better, my hands were shaky because of the cold so I was breathing on them to warm up lol. Just got back from another internet outage. Here is the SN close up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:08 AM, earthlight said: The polar ice cap is making a heavy advance on the moon now..commence ice age. It's as if we saw the moon go from global warming to ice age in an hour. Amazing logic I am displaying currently...4:00am posts are the best. Yes they are This kind of thing happened back in 1982-83, when we had a big total lunar eclipse, followed by a big snowstorm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 Alex..amazing shots. The light coming around the edges of the moon right now is incredible. The inspiration for my username. "When the Moon is in its crescent phase (here the waxing crescent), or in the midst of a total lunar eclipse, you can see its nighttime side lit by earthlight, sunlight reflected by the Earth, creating a glorious sight in a dark blue evening twilight sky." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wederwarrior Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 That was a fantastic display! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 By the way, what in the world is that to the left of the moon in your images? I saw it with my naked eye and noted it earlier in the thread. It was really bright especially as the eclipse was just starting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:29 AM, earthlight said: Alex..amazing shots. The light coming around the edges of the moon right now is incredible. The inspiration for my username. "When the Moon is in its crescent phase (here the waxing crescent), or in the midst of a total lunar eclipse, you can see its nighttime side lit by earthlight, sunlight reflected by the Earth, creating a glorious sight in a dark blue evening twilight sky." Very poetic, John! It reminds me of what they say about the new moon holding part of the old moon "in her arms" during the crescent phase. I like this definition from Arthur C Clarke also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlight_(astronomy) Earthlight is the partial illumination of the dark portion of the moon's surface by light reflected from the earth. It is also known as earthshine, the Moon's ashen glow or the old Moon in the new Moon's arms. This phenomenon is best observed just after new moon, when the moon is a thin crescent. On these nights it is easy to see the entire disk of the moon. The word is rare[citation needed] but is recognised by the Oxford English Dictionary. It would also be a suitable term for an observer on the moon seeing the Earth during the lunar night. Arthur C. Clarke uses it in this sense in his novel Earthlight. You should read that novel if you get a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:31 AM, earthlight said: By the way, what in the world is that to the left of the moon in your images? I saw it with my naked eye and noted it earlier in the thread. It was really bright especially as the eclipse was just starting. That bright orangish star to the left of the moon? It's a star in Orion-- the brightest constellation in the sky. I looked it up in SN and it's called BQ Orionis, apparently its a variable star 805 light years away and it changes color as it changes brightness (star color is a function of surface temps, and as the star cools or warms, it dims or brightens and changes color from yellow to orange to red.) Stars like this are unstable and will likely either go nova or supernova sometime in the future. It's listed as being 36 times larger the sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted December 21, 2010 Author Share Posted December 21, 2010 On 12/21/2010 at 9:38 AM, A-L-E-X said: That bright orangish star to the left of the moon? It's a star in Orion-- the brightest constellation in the sky. I looked it up in SN and it's called BQ Orionis, apparently its a variable star 805 light years away and it changes color as it changes brightness (star color is a function of surface temps, and as the star cools or warms, it dims or brightens and changes color from yellow to orange to red.) Stars like this are unstable and will likely either go nova or supernova sometime in the future. It's listed as being 36 times larger the sun. Wow. That's incredible. Awesome information thanks for relaying it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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