The pale white moon will turn pumpkin-orange as it plunges into shadow...
Pumpkin pie in the sky...Yum!
Cool, just in time for my Halloween party.
We like the moon.
A portent of Halloween? or the other thing?
I remember watching one of those about fifteen or so years ago at my summer job during college. I worked second shift and we all went outside to watch it. It really was quite something.
I am going to begin building a tower today so that I can see it Wednesday even it is cloudy here.
In Seabrook, the moon turned orange all the time.
Chemical clouds from Pasadena.
Following a volcanic eruption, for instance, dust and ash can turn global sunsets vivid red.
So maybe this is what St Helens has been prepping for? I'm going to go offer a sacrifice to Pele, requesting an eruption before then.
Definitely NOT amore.
Also, the Orionids are due.
I didn't even know they were pregnant.
Ba-dump
...?
It's the Great Pumpkin!
Not sure what a blood-red moon means.
But a pink moon indicates that an obscure singer/songwriter will soon gain posthumous popularity via a Volkswagon commerical.
Actually, the site says it will appear to North America, not just the U.S. Quit trying to appropriate everything, please.
U.S.ians have such a twisted sense of entitlement.
Coppermac, of course we'll share a moon with you.
(.)
In fact, it seems, it can be seen on every continent except Australia . So what have the antipodeans done wrong (or right)?
They've done nothing wrong, they just south of the earth's beer-belly, and east of two capes..
Pox!
=just live south
Ew!
I'm so wrong!
How could I forget about Howard!
Really, i promise, I didn't vote for him..
This is just a reminder for the monkeys who forgot it was tonight, like me.
9:14 EDT
Dang it's cloudly here and I can't find the moon. I hope the sky clears up over the next 3 hours.
Ooh . . . there it goes
A ring of small white lights through the mist, very handsome over the crest of the mountina here. No red in sight. Ah, well.
Total eclipse. The moon is in the maw of our shadow.
Way too overcast to see the moon, here where I am. All I can see, is a faint orange glow through he overcast sky.
Ans I was so looking forward to this.
he=the
ans=and
preview. preview. preview.
Fabulous show here, perfectly clear night. Can't find any local webcams.
Go RED sox!
Saw it, beautiful, and a helpful astronomy grad student was standing around to tell us all about it! (I really like universities at moments like that.)
Anybody got any pics? The moon didn't rise (in Hawai'i) until the end of it, and right before the rise the storm clouds started rolling in. They've stayed just ahead of the stupid moon, and I'm sure it's over by now.
Bah!
I hope to have pictures. Not sure how well they'll turn out, my 210mm lens decided tonight was the night to crap out and die (refused to focus), so took a bunch with 100mm lens. Crossing my fingers that I'll get a good shot ot two. Will have to wait for them though, used something ancient called film ... heh.
The view was amazing through my binoculars though. We had clear skys and moon was a wonderful tinge of rusty orange.
ps: pics from flikr with the tag eclipse. People are already posting them up.
Ok, so the sky cleared up some and I finally got to see some orange lunar action, toward the end of the eclipse. So cool. Some of those flickr photos are impressive. I took a shot but I have a feeling that when I check it out tomorrow it will be little more than a speck.
O Moon, unmade of cheese,
and gleaming with reflected light --
amazing how ye hang up there
especially in times like these.
Men put their foot upon your face,
accuse you of inconstancy,
and now their lunar landers probe
the crannies of your misnamed seas.
Blood that was
blood
taste that was
taste
drifting at sandspeed
I was the moon's size
and color.
The anxieties
Of student mothers
Manifests in
Feilds of lamps
on a nearby campus.
The light is caught
Inside the clouds,
Robing us all
Of a vision
Of a disrobing goddess.
)))
and
)))!
O Moon, thou art sick!
The metallic louse
that lands in the dust
man's sad cyber-joust
has flattened thy breast
of soft grey down;
and this stranger's frottage
does shred thy fine gown.
With how sad words, O tick, ye limn yon sky,
Ill-scarred your moon, she hath an ashen face --
What cheesed off mouse in all celestial space,
Would dare to gnaw that damaged lunar pie?
What is ')))'?
))) = a trio of pictographic bananas, Nickdanger
one banana, a token of sincere esteem
two bananas, a banana in each monkey hand
three bananas, getting harder to hold onto them all, so why not give one away?
O Moon, when I gaze on thy beautiful face,
Careering along through the boundaries of space,
The thought has often come into my mind
If I ever shall see thy glorious behind.
>-- A Housemaid Poet. From The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse, edited by D. B. Windham Lewis and Charles Lee [1930]
Oh, in that case, Thanks!
(*banana mush covered face*)
moon
o
.o
..oh
....so
....yel
.....low
......mel
.......low
......hello
......Yo-yo
.......sweet
.......fellow
.......seduce
.......with a
........cello
........limbs
........go to
.......Jello
........mel
.......low
.......yel
......low
......so
.....oh
.....o
...o
...wow!
'Cause it's the biggest aspidestrabanana in the world!
Fish tick, I believe you deserve some pudding!
Multitudinous nanners, o eloquent shape-shifting fish!
Awww, merci. Mind, now- none o' yer Fluffy Mackerel Pudding; how aboot some Aspidistra pudding? Heh.
Or how aboot some Figgy Duff?
... or Nanaimo bars - yum! ;-)
black sky, crimson moon
like a ripe plum overhead
pass the Figgy Duff
Figgy Duff
overhead
arcs like
a pudding
made of
tapioca
With 'lasses an' raisins
we watches changin' saysons,
b'y.
aspidestrabanana in the world!