Posted on 01/20/2019 8:10:16 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE
Brilliantly clear (but very cold) sky over SouthEast US after rains earlier in the day.
Very good viewing, for a few minutes outside in the cold air.
It looks like this.
I didn’t go outside, but opened my kitchen window in the hope that I could see something outside. No, but did get a blast of C-O-L-D winter air. I watched nearly the whole thing on the livestream on Youtube kindly put up by a fellow named Allen Mitchell. I don’t know what he does for a living, but the streaming was very professional, with his pointing out certain things at times. Next best thing to going outside.
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My view
Appreciate that.
But I realize now that my real dissatisfaction is that I want to see it for myself.
Coyotes here are raising a racket as well as all the area dogs.
I brought the cats in for the night since I figured it would be a bit animated outside tonight.
It would be a pretty neat sight from the moon. I figure a new Earth unlike a new moon might be visible as a red ring if you covered up the Sun with your hand. No problem figuring out where Earth was since it’s always in the same spot for a lunar observer. It’s a solar eclipse when seen from the moon and your smooth Grey hills would get darkened in dull redness.
Looked more orange color to me. I hope the snowflake left who looked at it thought of Trump.
Clear skies in Manhattan, with a few passing cumulus clouds, 14 degrees and winds about 20 - 30 mph. From our roof we had a great view of the moon almost directly overhead, rust-red in color. Last bit of partial shadow disappeared at 1:59 a.m.
Thank you Robert A Cook PE for the thread and to all for the comments!
My wife has developed a great interest in astronomy. I go along for the ride.
We drove 800 miles to chase the solar eclipse. Last night we were blessed with an incredibly clear sky. She woke me up around midnight to see the totality.
It was singly digit temps so I didn’t stay out long. She stayed out quite a while but I had to get back to sleep to go to work this morning.
She was texting with my kids, one of whom is an actual rocket science. One of them said he was afraid of burning his eyes so he wasn’t going out to look.
I got as far as the indoor-outdoor thermometer. Peeked out, overcast, not doin' it. I've seen plenty of lunar eclipses, and missed a number of others, I'll live. :^)
It was only 38 degrees here so I got a good eyeful. Im good for a few years now. I think freeping while watching it made it more fun this time around.
We had another bright, cloudless, sunny day, and enjoyed the heat wave which pushed the mercury up to 10 above. :^) Alas, lunar eclipses don't happen in the daytime sky...
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