It's The Blood Moon, Bitches!

[BrassFusion]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-03-03-voa22.cfm

The moon will turn shades of red Saturday during a total lunar eclipse.

The best views of the eclipse will be in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, but it will also be at least partly visible in Asia and the Americas.

just wish we had a better view of it

[Dollardave]

What times the eclipse Erin? I'll probably be in the club when it happens tho. If its b4 10:00pm I might see it.

[BrassFusion]

What times the eclipse Erin? I'll probably be in the club when it happens tho. If its b4 10:00pm I might see it.

the link said 2300 UTC, whatever the fuck that means. universal time constant???

thing is, if it's somewhat visible in the americas AND europe AND asia, it's going to be visible for a span of time, i guess... early evening for us. if utc is the same as gmt, that's 6PM over here.

[Homicidalheathen]

Tonight is the awesome eclipse and last moon of winter ritual. I am happy.

[BrassFusion]

From a different article:

Earth's shadow will begin moving across the moon at 2018GMT, with the total eclipse occurring at 2244GMT and lasting over an hour.

Residents of east Asia will see the eclipse cut short by moonset, while those in the eastern parts of North and South America will find the moon already partially or totally eclipsed by the time it rises over the horizon in the evening.

The total eclipse, then, will be from moonrise to 6:44 in our time zone, with partial eclipse after that. I hope it's clear enough to see.

Moon Rise: 18:24

Moon Set: 7:27 Tomorrow

Moon Declination: 11.2

Full Moon: Saturday March 3, 2007 at 18:13

Total Lunar Eclipse at: 18:18

Partial Semi-duration: 109.59

Total Semi-duration: 36.16

[torn asunder]

yeah... i was looking forward to this, but i ended up drinking, and thought "fuck it!!"...

[Steven]

I was in my archie bunker chair, sick as a dog, blowing boogers.

[BrassFusion]

i was cursing the cloud cover.

[Amerist]

We didn't have any cloud cover, but unfortunately the city here in Phoenix has a mountainous skyline as well as the cityscape. The actual eclipse effect happened almost exactly at moon rise, so there wasn't a lick of it left when we went to look for it.

By the time anyone could find the moon it was apparently mostly over. (Some of us had hoped smog over the city proper might give it a tinge, but of course, it's a clear day today.)

Instead we blamed everything wonky on the eclipse and went about lives as usual, with the drums celebrating the blood on the moon we missed, and the blood in our veins we keep.

[BrassFusion]

We didn't have any cloud cover, but unfortunately the city here in Phoenix has a mountainous skyline as well as the cityscape. The actual eclipse effect happened almost exactly at moon rise, so there wasn't a lick of it left when we went to look for it.

By the time anyone could find the moon it was apparently mostly over. (Some of us had hoped smog over the city proper might give it a tinge, but of course, it's a clear day today.)

Instead we blamed everything wonky on the eclipse and went about lives as usual, with the drums celebrating the blood on the moon we missed, and the blood in our veins we keep.

Maybe that's why last night was so fucked up for me. Hel-LO! Blood moon!