Awesome eclipse coming

Ghoulish Delight · 08-28-2007, 08:19 AM

Morning all! We went to bed around midnight, and crawled back out at 2:45. We watched the last moments as the shadow overtook the surface. The way it crept along, right on the edge of being fast enough to be perceptible. And without it's bright white glow, the moon seemed to shrink to half its size one fully immersed in its dull red glow (red, by the way, because once fully in the shadow, the only light that reaches it is the long wave-length red light that gets bent around Earth's atmosphere).

The second I can afford commercial space travel, I'm on a rocket to the moon.

08-28-2007, 08:19 AM	#11
Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Morning all! We went to bed around midnight, and crawled back out at 2:45. We watched the last moments as the shadow overtook the surface. The way it crept along, right on the edge of being fast enough to be perceptible. And without it's bright white glow, the moon seemed to shrink to half its size one fully immersed in its dull red glow (red, by the way, because once fully in the shadow, the only light that reaches it is the long wave-length red light that gets bent around Earth's atmosphere). The second I can afford commercial space travel, I'm on a rocket to the moon. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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