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News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:36 pm

So, for those of us in North America, tonight we'll be having a total lunar eclipse.

It should last from 10pm(eastern and end around midnight.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... ?list28328

As a special added bonus. We may be able to see the destruction of the failed US satellite, which ill be shot down at 10:30pm eastern time.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/20/us-t ... 0-30pm-et/

This is gonna be awesome

by **Rogue.** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:52 pm

Haha, yes it is! I wonder if we can see the satellite being toasted out of the atmosphere?

You should have titled this topic BLOOD MOON!

I'm going to head out around 10pm to see the moon...

by **The Happy Locust** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:50 pm

Only about 7PM here. But yes, I'm watching this. Watched it the entire freeway drive home (not a reccomended activity)

News Credits: 5 · by **God Magnus** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:12 pm

I'm so glad the sky was clear for me. The nights of the last two recent meteor showers and the night Mars was supposed to look huge were completely overcast. I love stuff like this!

News Credits: 7 · by **Omega Charge** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:25 pm

It is totally cloudy here. I'll have to wait two years now.

by **Pyrostrata** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:03 am

I watched the whole thing as it happened! First one I have watched in it's entirety in my life...Was quite a neat thing! They were afraid we'd miss it because we have a huge winter storm coming in a matter of hours, and they were thinking the clouds would obscure it...We lucked out!

Sure made Venus bright!

by **Dragonoth** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:03 am

I was late for the full eclipse because I was playing Cthulhu with my friends. We took a break at the windows to see the crescent. Then we went back to the game and got sucked into the Dreamlands. I knew my character should have stayed with the astronomers' club instead of talking to the cultists!

News Credits: 2 · by **Shadowman** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 2:17 am

Dammit! I wanted to see spaceships explode!

Seriosuly, DARPA, why don't we have more spaceships and battles in which to use them?!

by **Halo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:46 am

I watched the entire thing in the bigger cold. It was awesome.

News Credits: 49 · by **Senor Hugo** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:26 am

I got to see most of it, couldn't see any satellite debree or explosion or anything.

But yeah, saw most of the lunar eclipse, it was pretty cool, But I didn't watch it finish, by about 11, the tips of my fingers were frozen, so I called it a night.

For anyone who missed it, or those who didn't get the opportunity to see it.

http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/ ... lipse.aspx

by **Nymph** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:39 pm

Oh I really wanted to see it but there was so much cloud coverage!

When the clouds finally got patchy and the moon shown through .. I was trying to see it but must have been over .How long did it last?

Like Evolution Prime on Facebook · by **Evolution Prime** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:02 pm

Nymph wrote:Oh I really wanted to see it but there was so much cloud coverage! When the clouds finally got patchy and the moon shown through .. I was trying to see it but must have been over .How long did it last?

Where I was at it started at 7:43 and ended about 11 pm (CST). It was pretty cool to see for the first time.

by **Blast Cannon** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:28 pm

Yeah, it was a complete disappointment for most UKers this time around, with far too much cloud cover to see anything. Saying that, I had a brilliant time at the rave celebrating the eclipse. Good ol' students.