Lunar Eclipse!

[furtech]

This Saturday's full moon (11-8-03) is not just the "Frosty Moon" or "Beaver Moon", but it's also going to be a lunar eclipse! You East-coasters will see the whole show (starting around 6:30EST), while we West-coasters will see the moon rise partially or fully eclipsed! Omens a-plenty! We'll either try to time the dogwalk to see the moon rise, or maybe go off to North Bend and watch!

A rising blood-moon -must- have SOME significance for werewolves and other moon-lovers! Find a romantic spot and catch the eerie light show!

Comments

[was1.livejournal.com]

Cool. I hope the weather improves by then and it isn't all cloudy.

[auryanne.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good to know for werewolf RP purposes. Thanks!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll make you a theurge-equivalent for being so forewarned! Aroo!

[brokkentwolf.livejournal.com]

Neato. I should be able to catch it in FLA then. :) Thanks for the info!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Lucky you! You get to see the whole event, in a place that should be nice and warm the whole time! Totality begins at about 8PM and lasts until about 8:30, FYI.

Woo!

[razor-wulff.livejournal.com]

Saturday (11-8) happens to be my Birthday as well.... isn't that something? And of course I am a werewolf enthusiast as well.

Re: Woo!

[furtech.livejournal.com]

Congrats--this MUST mean -something-! A lunar eclipse/bloodmoon on your birthday! Maybe it'll warm up down there too...have a great BD!

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

I will find a suitable sacrifice to bring the moon back from the darkness!!!

I've seen about a half dozen full lunar eclipses in my time and just observing them has become kind of uninteresting for me.

However, viewing the umbra as it starts to overtake the moon through a *telescope* is much more fascinating than one would expect. Through a 16" Celestron Cassegrain scope you could watch shadows cast by mountains on the moon actually dim as the lunar "dawn" occured.

If you have the opportunity, go see this through a telescope.

[furtech.livejournal.com]

I agree-- watching a lunar eclipse can be like watching water warm to boil...so we usually time it so that we start our dogwalk at about 1/2 coverage and walk in a direction that we can see the moon for the whole walk. I don't think we're organized enough to do the telescope thing (and I don't think any of us owns one currently), but I've heard it can be neat (as you described). Maybe heading out to one of the well-known dark areas would enable us to peek through someone else's telescope.

[skorzy.livejournal.com]

A planetarium willl most certainly have a sky-view program for this. Investigate at local colleges and Universities too! In our area, there's a wildlife/natural science museum (Worcester EcoTarium) that brings out the telescopes for such events. They did for the Mars apogee, but we didn't go because of the crowds. Though, such a thing is worth it at least once for an eclipse.