Total Lunar Eclipse Tonight!

jimmychung

jimmychung

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Starts at 8:45PM EST, it will be total from 10-10:52PM. This is the last one until 2010 so it may be worth your while to take a second and check it out. Can't wait, I love this shit.
 
Yeah man. I always followed this stuff really close when I was a kid. I sort of fell out of it but it's always so intersting. Celestial events such as these are so fascinating.
 
damn i just missed it by 35 minutes. moon is bright and shiny over Corner Brook. It would be so sick to be skiing under a lunar eclipse though..take that, thread about skiing under the full moon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
I wanna spend about 20 minutes trying to get nice photos of all angles and such. Shooting the moon straight on can be tricky
 
solar eclipses arethe good shit, i saw a total one in France years ago, it was pretty damn cool

but lunar ones are good too.
 
yea i can get a video but the glare is too intense for my shitty camera haha.

i also tried to take a picture but its too darkk hahaaa
 
uploading killed quality but here's my best (not total eclipse)

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nice picture man. I'll upload mine when I get the chance, hopefully tonight. I shot in raw though so it might take awhile and because I still have some homework to do.
 
Oooooh true. I forgot all about that. Can you see any of it? I love sitting outside and watching the sky. I had my tripod setup over my crazy creek ground chair, if anyone knows what that is, and I was so comfortable. Only bad part was the tree directly in my way. And I fell on the way out while holding my camera, luckily nothing dropped haha.
 
ah hell yeah, those are made in red lodge montana and one of the guys who own it run a small summer ski area on beartooth pass
 
i watched it for a little bit, it was way sick...then when it was about done i realized i should have filmed it and did a time lapse.
 
They shot it down right during the lunar eclipse. Quite a feat. That satellite was moving at 22,000 mph and orbited the earth every 90 minutes or so. Supposedly a head on collision with a heat seeking ballistic missile? I didn't know a satellite without power would give off a heat signiture. I had heard rumours that the satellite had a radioisotope-thermoelectric-generator (RTG) to keep some of the sensitive intelligence technologies warmed up. But RTGs contain plutonium or some other radioactive material, and blowing up radioactive shit in the upper atmosphere doesn't sound like a good idea, so I dunno. Apparently amateur astronomers are tracking the debris fields now. Lets see if it takes out some other satellites or not (probably won't, space orbits are pretty few and far between).
 
actually it's a wonderful way of disposing of it. it will diffuse greatly and really not leave a trace of effect on the surface. radioactivity is a run of the mill phenomenon that occurs around us all the time. it's only dangerous when condensed in a certain area and detonating that material super high is a perfect way to let it disperse.
 
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