OT: Lunar Eclipse February 20, 2008

[Dave in Houston]

[Joe]

Thanks for posting. I'll have to keep my son up (pun intended) for this one.

jc

[Jeff]

Enjoy. We have no chance of seeing it here. It's snowing pretty hard right now....

[Gerald Ross]

Fair and short sleeve weather here. Might try to get a photo.

[user]

10 degrees here in Southeast Iowa, clear skies, and my wife is outside with her camera. She always gets excellent shots.

Maybe I will moon her!

[Robatoy]

I hope you don't spoil my shot..LOL

The skies are incredibly clear tonight and the eclipse has already started. So has the drop in temperature..7 F already

[Dave Balderstone]

It's bloody cold here, but it looks like we'll have clear skies.

[jo4hn]

about 25dF here in the mountains of So Cal. Cloudy with ~6 inches of new snow and more on the way. Ready for spring. shiver, jo4hn

[Puckdropper]

Robatoy wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I watched it in 8F weather, first spending a half hour messing with my sister's telescope. I finally quit trying to align the thing by using the "finder" and just lined the telescope with an approximate direct line between the viewfinder and the moon. It took 30 seconds, and I had the moon in the viewfinder!

Kinda neat to watch, even if it was backwards.

Puckdropper

[Gerald Ross]

Am putting a shot in ABPW (OT).

[mac davis]

Pretty much the same here in Baja... We sat on the beach and watched for a few hours... huge moon last night and clear sky so it was pretty dramatic..

mac

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[Marty]

Nice thread! I haven't been visited rec.woodworking for a long time, but deja'd my way in looking for info on router planes. I'm sort of an amateur astronomer, and spend most of my time in sci.astro.amateur, (a fine amateur astronomy group which for some months has been suffering badly from severe attacks from trolls, jerks, and nutballs.) It's fun to see the woodworkers enjoying a look at the night sky! Marty

[mac davis]

Marty.. I enjoy the OT stuff almost as much as the wood stuff..

I've also found that groups that discourage the OT stuff usually dry up and blow away, as groups like this keep interested folks here..

mac

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[Fred the Red Shirt]

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Finder scopes are generally worthless.

Just get a very low-power eyepiece, one that gives you a ~ 2 degree field of view to find the object and then switch to whatever magnification you want.